TY - JOUR AU - Lohtaja, Aleksi AU - Viitahuhta, Taneli PY - 2018/05/02 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Walter Benjamin, taiteen toinen tekniikka ja avantgarden kulttuuripolitiikka JF - Kulttuuripolitiikan tutkimuksen vuosikirja JA - Kultpo VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Artikkelit DO - 10.17409/kpt.63289 UR - https://journal.fi/kultpol/article/view/63289 SP - 38-50 AB - <p>This article provides a fresh look into Walter Benjamin’s famous essay, “Artwork in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936). Following Benjamin scholar Esther Leslie, we claim that Benjamin’s lesser-known concept of “second technique” is integral for understanding both the meaning of essay as well as mapping the political and artistic aims of the 1920’s avant-garde movements in general. The article is structured around two cases of avant-garde, both of which are central already for Benjamin, but remain somewhat under-theorized in connection to Benjamin. These are the Soviet constructivist film and the idea of glass construction in Weimar-era German architecture.</p><p>Keywords: Walter Benjamin, second technique of art, avantgarde, film, architecture</p> ER -