Into the Aura
RISD Neo-VanguardsEighty-five years after Walter Benjamin theorized the aura in the work of art, how do we understand that "strange weave of space and time" in an era of digital connection, when art seems to be everywhere and nowhere at once? Join students at the Rhode Island School of Design as we explore the life and the afterlife of the aura as it resurfaced, transformed, and disappeared during the volatile peri... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 9 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Categories | DesignArtsVisual Arts | ||||
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In this final episode of Into the Aura, we revisit the central question of the series: can the aura survive the processes of reproduction? We consider the present status of reproduction in the digital age, from Google Earth to Instagram, before revis... more
Data, numbers, algorithms: are these works of art? In this episode we take a look at the historical and artistic presence of information in our lives, from the meteorologically-oriented sculptures of Nathalie Miebach; to the pulse-driven portraits of... more
When does art become public? This episode of Into the Aura looks at a range of artworks, both inside and outside the museum gallery, that address public sites and public audiences. We consider the place of monument, in the case of Anish Kapoor's Clou... more
What is a body? Is it natural? Is it political? These questions are posed in this episode of Into the Aura, which looks at the work of two pivotal feminist artists, Ana Mendieta and Cecilia Vicuña. Blurring the lines between performance, installation... more
What happens to the aura when the work of art is not an object, but an event? This episode considers examines the place of performance art in the neo-vanguards and how it reorganizes the relationship between artist and viewer. We look at the work of ... more
Tacky, gaudy, pre-packaged, vulgar: what is the place of kitsch in the avant-garde? In this episode, we continue our conversation about commodity culture by focusing on two artists whose work is inextricable from the category of kitsch—Andy Warhol an... more
Is there an aura in Andy Warhol's screen prints of soup cans and Marilyns? This week we take a close look at the complicated world of Pop Art, which brought art down to the level of consumer object—and elevated the commodity to the realm of the avant... more
What exactly is the aura? How does it function in a work of art? We begin our journey Into the Aura with the writing and thinking of Walter Benjamin, who first theorized the aura in a fraught historical moment marked by political extremism, social an... more
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