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аура
The term used by Walter Benjamin in his influential 1936 essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', where it is identified as a quality integral to an artwork that cannot be communicated through mechanical reproduction, such as photography.
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- Industry/Domain: Art history
- Category: General art history
- Company: Tate
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