Tag: The Nightwatch

• Fragmentary, No. 7

  In the age of pictorial reproduction the meaning of paintings is no longer attached to them; their meaning becomes transmittable: that is to say it becomes information of a sort, and, like all information, it is either put to use or ignored; information carries no special authority within itself. When a painting is put to…

  • R L • powell

  January 22, 2015

  Fragments, Image

  John Berger, Mechanical Reproduction, Rembrandt, The Nightwatch, Walter Benjamin, Ways of Seeing