critically analyse how art or artists are represented in film or television.with reference to one case study

Walter Benjamin and the Value of Art

Walter Benjamin 's remains one of the most oft-anthologized critics of media theory in the world in large part due to the influence of one essay in particular "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction " At the heart of Benjamin 's essay is his theory that the absence of technology that makes almost any great work of art quite easy to reproduce , and the idea that this technology has had the effect of the ritualistic rise of easily reproducible artwork which leads to

that artwork losing its traditional ritual significance . As a ritualistic entity , art has slowly come to lose its very meaning as the importance of authenticity has become a far less integral component in investing meaning to the product itself . Benjamin locates this ritual significance in the work of art in terms of its unique quality the authenticity of its unique quality lends it what Benjamin terms aura ' Prior to the invention of technology that could create a million different reproductions of a Renaissance painting or even an ancient Greek statue , the value of a work of art was entirely dependent on the fact that it existed in isolation from anything else on earth The capacity to create mass reproductions of artworks has removed them the cult value with which art began , and has also relocated the philosophical power of art that had existed entirely within its authenticity to manipulative power based upon its value as exhibition

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