Taste
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
This document explores the effects of mechanical reproduction on art, discussing the change in perception, the relationship between mass and art, and the influence of technology and politics.
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Can A.I. Rethink Art? Should It?
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Culture critic Theodore Adorno complained that mass-distributed music led to increasing "standardization," lamenting that popular works were settling upon "verse-chorus-verse-chorus" patterns and other conventions in which "nothing fundamentally novel [would] be introduced."
Daniel Parris • When Did Popular Music Become Standardized? A Statistical Analysis
“The artists who were pioneering the modern movement in the visual arts looked widely for inspiration, breaking away from the old hierarchy of ‘high’ and ‘low’ that had long divided visual culture into fine art and decorative art,” said business historian Regina Lee Blaszczyk.
