Artistic production The Preface presents Marxist analyses of the construction of a capitalist society and of the place of the arts in such a society, in the public sphere and in the private sphere ; and explains the socio-economic conditions of society to extrapolate future developments of capitalism, which result in the economic exploitation of the proletariat, and so produce the social conditions that would abolish capitalism. Benjamin establishes that artistic reproduction is not a modern human activity, by reviewing the historical and technological developments of the mechanical means for reproducing a work of art , such as an artist manually copying the work of a master artist ; the industrial arts of the foundry and the stamp mill in Ancient Greece; and the modern arts of woodcut relief-printing and engraving, etching, lithography, and photography, industrial techniques of mass production that permit greater accuracy in the mechanical reproduction of a work of art. 
Artistic production In the Preface, Benjamin presents Marxist analyses of the organisation of a capitalist society and establishes the place of the arts in the public sphere and in the private sphere . Then explains the socio-economic conditions to extrapolate developments that further the economic exploitation of the proletariat, whence arise the social conditions that would abolish capitalism. That the reproduction of art is not a modern human activity, and reviews the historical and technological developments of the means for the mechanical reproduction of art — such as an artist manually copying the work of a master artist , and their effects upon society's valuation of a work of art — the industrial arts of the foundry and the stamp mill in Ancient Greece; and the modern arts of woodcut relief-printing and engraving, etching, lithography, and photography, techniques of mass production that permit greater accuracy in reproducing a work of art. Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1935) p. 01.
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