Fake or Fortune? Alexander Dorner and the Weimar Reproductions Debate
Between 1929 and 1930 the Der Kreis journal hosted a debate among art historians and museum directors on how art copies were changing the museum landscape. The so-called Hamburger Faksimile-Streit constitutes a crucial moment in the Weimarian theoretical debate on the categories of copy and origi...
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Between 1929 and 1930 the Der Kreis journal hosted a debate among art historians and museum directors on how art copies were changing the museum landscape. The so-called Hamburger Faksimile-Streit constitutes a crucial moment in the Weimarian theoretical debate on the categories of copy and original, culminating a few years later in Benjamin’s well-known essay on the work of art. After examining the theses of the main participants in the debate, this article focus on the position of curator and museum director Alexander Dorner – the only one advocating for the non-superiority of originals over copies in art museums – and on his relationship with Walter Benjamin’s later theories.
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| spelling | doaj.art-ed390a9abd394154a6d1caff2cb469052023-10-30T08:17:24ZengFondazione Università Ca’ FoscariVenezia Arti2385-27202021-12-0130110.30687/VA/2385-2720/2021/07/006journal_article_6661Fake or Fortune? Alexander Dorner and the Weimar Reproductions DebateBalbi, Camilla0Università IULM, Milano, Italia Between 1929 and 1930 the Der Kreis journal hosted a debate among art historians and museum directors on how art copies were changing the museum landscape. The so-called Hamburger Faksimile-Streit constitutes a crucial moment in the Weimarian theoretical debate on the categories of copy and original, culminating a few years later in Benjamin’s well-known essay on the work of art. After examining the theses of the main participants in the debate, this article focus on the position of curator and museum director Alexander Dorner – the only one advocating for the non-superiority of originals over copies in art museums – and on his relationship with Walter Benjamin’s later theories. http://doi.org/10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2021/07/006Alexander Dorner. Art copies. Hamburger Faksimile-Streit. Museum Studies. Weimar Art Theory |
| spellingShingle | Balbi, Camilla Fake or Fortune? Alexander Dorner and the Weimar Reproductions Debate Venezia Arti Alexander Dorner. Art copies. Hamburger Faksimile-Streit. Museum Studies. Weimar Art Theory |
| title | Fake or Fortune? Alexander Dorner and the Weimar Reproductions Debate |
| title_full | Fake or Fortune? Alexander Dorner and the Weimar Reproductions Debate |
| title_fullStr | Fake or Fortune? Alexander Dorner and the Weimar Reproductions Debate |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fake or Fortune? Alexander Dorner and the Weimar Reproductions Debate |
| title_short | Fake or Fortune? Alexander Dorner and the Weimar Reproductions Debate |
| title_sort | fake or fortune alexander dorner and the weimar reproductions debate |
| topic | Alexander Dorner. Art copies. Hamburger Faksimile-Streit. Museum Studies. Weimar Art Theory |
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