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Saturday, 20th April 2013
Clever book cover for The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin. Discovered via the wonderful Frank Chimero.
Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
C. E. Clerget, frontispiece from L’Artiste, 2nd series, vol. 3, Paris, 1839.
(Source: archive.org)