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“The Greeks had only one form of (mechanical) reproduction: [[minting]] coins.” --Walter Benjamin “The Greeks had only one form of (mechanical) reproduction: [[minting]] coins.” --Walter Benjamin
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 +:Die Griechen kannten nur zwei Verfahren technischer Reproduktion von Kunstwerken: den Guft und die Pragung. Bronzen, Terra-
 +kotten und Miinzen waren die einzigen Kunstwerke, die von ihnen massenweise hergestellt werden konnten. Alle tibrigen waren einmalig und technisch nicht zu reproduzieren.
== See also == == See also ==
*''[[The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ]]'' *''[[The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ]]''

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Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday eveg., January 13th 1840, by which melancholy occurence; over 100 persons perished.  Mass produced Courier lithograph documenting a news event, published three days after the disaster.
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Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday eveg., January 13th 1840, by which melancholy occurence; over 100 persons perished. Mass produced Courier lithograph documenting a news event, published three days after the disaster.
Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda. (La Joconde), is a 16th century oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and is one of the most famous paintings in the world. It has acquired an iconic status in popular culture. In 1963, pop artist Andy Warhol started making colorful serigraph prints of the Mona Lisa. Warhol thus consecrated her as a modern icon, similar to Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley. At the same time, his use of a stencil process and crude colors implies a criticism of the debasement of aesthetic values in a society of mass production and mass consumption. Today the Mona Lisa is frequently reproduced, finding its way on to everything from carpets to mouse pads.
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Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda. (La Joconde), is a 16th century oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci, and is one of the most famous paintings in the world. It has acquired an iconic status in popular culture. In 1963, pop artist Andy Warhol started making colorful serigraph prints of the Mona Lisa. Warhol thus consecrated her as a modern icon, similar to Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley. At the same time, his use of a stencil process and crude colors implies a criticism of the debasement of aesthetic values in a society of mass production and mass consumption. Today the Mona Lisa is frequently reproduced, finding its way on to everything from carpets to mouse pads.

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Although the term mass production is generally used to refer to Henry Ford's Ford Model T assembly lines, mass production in the publishing industry has been commonplace since popular prints of the Middle Ages, old master prints of the Renaissance and Johannes Gutenberg's Bible.

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“The Greeks had only one form of (mechanical) reproduction: minting coins.” --Walter Benjamin

Die Griechen kannten nur zwei Verfahren technischer Reproduktion von Kunstwerken: den Guft und die Pragung. Bronzen, Terra-

kotten und Miinzen waren die einzigen Kunstwerke, die von ihnen massenweise hergestellt werden konnten. Alle tibrigen waren einmalig und technisch nicht zu reproduzieren.

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