<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (October 2018) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (October 2018) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction much influenced the intellectualism of the Frankfurt School, especially the aesthetic and political analyses of Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse . </P> <P> In the late 20th century, in the television program Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger drew from the themes of Walter Benjamin's essay, and explained the contemporary representations of social - class and racial - caste in the production of art . That the modern means of artistic production and of artistic reproduction have destroyed the aesthetic, cultural, and political authority of art: "For the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free", for lacking the aura of the original work of art . </P>

Summary of the work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility