Walter Walter Benjamin entre a crise e a crítica da arte moderna

Abstract

The present work consists of an investigation into the crisis of the work of art and its respective criticism within the philosophical elaboration of Walter Benjamin. Thus, the path taken here aims to demonstrate the consequences of a crisis in art, from an aesthetic perspective, but also critical and reflective on the consequences arising from this crisis and its determining aspects, which established a new formula for art in the modern era. . To this end, this research first goes through the elementary points for the first steps of the art crisis in a period of recent and dizzying modernizations in Europe, especially in the city of Paris, until finally, reaching the awareness of technical reproducibility and its advancement in the field artistic. For preparatory purposes, this study is divided into two chapters. In the first we focus on the relationship between art and modernity, that is, the main details of modernity, its changes and advances that generated a crisis in art and its reception. Therefore, in the second chapter, we explore the advancement of technical reproducibility, which is primarily expressed in photography and cinematographic phenomena. Therefore, the search carried out in the present work, legitimizes the criticism carried out by the German philosopher, in order to demonstrate that the aspects observed by him regarding the changes of modernity, were crucial and inevitable for a crisis in art, since the advancement of technique and its development have installed a new perspective in the contemporary world and therefore continue to have heuristic value.