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Podcast: New Books in Art
Episode: Aura
Description: In this episode Saronik asks Kim about the aura.The idea comes from Walter Benjamin’s 1935 essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”Besides the central text, the episode references Benjamin’s 1940 essay, “On the Concept of History” in which the Angel of History appears. We also talk about Oscar Wilde’s 1891 essay “The Soul of Man Under Socialism.” And make a passing mention of the British artist Banksy.The image is a photograph that Kim took of a painting of peaches in an art museum in Amsterdam. She forgets artist and tit...