Introducing Postmodernism pp 3 - 87
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What was the "Crisis of Representation? Are computers creating a second crisis of representation?
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How did Walter Benjamine define Aura? What is the Aura of an artwork produced on the computer
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According to the school of thought known as Structuralism: What is the difference between language and thought? What is the difference between language and a work of visual art?
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How does Roland Barthes idea of the "Death of the Author" describe how viewers look at a piece of Visual Art? (When two people look at an image at the same time do they see the same thing?)