The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Creation

Portrait of Paul Valery by Jacques-Emile Blanche Back in 1928, Paul Valéry predicted streaming media: It will be possible to send anywhere or to re-create anywhere a system of sensations, or more precisely a system of stimuli, provoked by some object or event in any given place. Works of art will acquire a kind of ubiquity. We shall only have to summon them and there they will be, either in their…