The shooting of a film, especially of a sound film, affords a spectacle unimaginable anywhere at any time before this. It presents a...

The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the...

For the film, what matters primarily is that the actor represents himself to the public before the camera, rather than representing...

The artistic performance of a stage actor is definitely presented to the public by the actor in person; that of the screen actor,...

The nineteenth-century dispute as to the artistic value of painting versus photography today seems devious and confused. This does not...

In photography, exhibition value begins to displace cult value all along the line. But cult value does not give way without resistance....

Works of art are received and valued on different planes. Two polar types stand out: with one, the accent is on the cult value; with the...

The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition. This tradition itself is thoroughly...

During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity's entire mode of existence. The manner in which...

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at...

In principle a work of art has always been reproducible. Man-made artefacts could always be imitated by men. Replicas were made by pupils...

'Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of...