BD3

1) When something is reproduced for so many times is that art? What's the importance of the mechanical reproducibility of the art? What was the impact on mechanical reproducibility on the society?
-   I think when they have been reproduced for so many times, they can't be art anymore. The change that has come about is an expression of the particular conflict which painting was implicated by the mechanical reproducibility of paintings. Although paintings began to be publicly exhibited in galleries and salons, there was no way for the masses to organize and control themselves in their reception. Thus the same public which responds in a progressive manner toward a grotesque film is bound to respond in a reactionary manner to surrealism.

2) Is photography art, or contribution to the art? Is it just a tool used by artists?
-   Yes, I think they are. For some special causes, they can reproduce those art that are endangered. It's a way to protect.

3) How and why Henry Pitch Robinson created Feading Away? What was the reason?
-  The photograph( Feading Away,a picture skillfully printed from five different negatives. ) was the product of Robinson’s imagination, it felt that such a scene was too painful to be tastefully rendered by such a literal medium as photography.

4) Photography has impacted the world of art and influenced some changes in the area of accessibility to art. If mechanical reproduction created revolution, what is happening now with the digitalization?
- With the advent of the first truly revolutionary means of reproduction, photography, simultaneously with the rise of socialism, art sensed the approaching crisis which has become evident a century later. The concepts which are introduced into the theory of art in what follows differ from the more familiar terms in that they are completely useless for the purposes of Fascism. They are, on the other hand, useful for the formulation of revolutionary demands in the politics of art.