| 词汇 | example_english_mechanical-reproduction |
| 释义 | mechanical reproductioncollocation in Englishmeanings of mechanicaland reproductionThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with reproduction. mechanical adjective uk /məˈkæn.ɪ.kəl/ us /məˈkæn.ɪ.kəl/ operated by a machine, or connected with machines or ... See more at mechanical reproduction noun uk /ˌriː.prəˈdʌk.ʃən/ us /ˌriː.prəˈdʌk.ʃən/ the process of having babies, producing young, or producing ... See more at reproduction Examples of mechanical reproductionThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The age of mechanicalreproduction looks very different today. But the primary requisite was a voice that would be equaled by its mechanicalreproduction. In this context the notion of a performance acquires overtones of mechanicalreproduction, strain, even sweat. The first effect which all the media of mechanicalreproduction have upon musical culture is that of a multiplier. Mechanicalreproduction may unveil hidden aspects of the original and take the copy to formerly inaccessible places. Furthermore, recorded sounds can be endlessly repeated without fluctuations in their signal, which is physically impossible outside of mechanicalreproduction. Art with its aura had entered the age of mechanicalreproduction, and would never be bound to the museum again. The enthusiastic accumulation by fans of an unending suite of related images both echoes and subverts the mass mechanicalreproduction of the modern celebrity image. He yearns for this high art regime to be destabilized, and sees the influence of mechanicalreproduction as a groundbreaking intervention. The loss of aura that mechanicalreproduction can effect is for him something to be celebrated, not lamented or compensated for. This common denominator is the "automaton ontology," the belief that each is a "mechanicalreproduction of an apparently nonmechanical being" (16). The senses of vision and hearing should therefore remain divided, to prevent the dissonance of mechanicalreproduction from disrupting the social harmony of good music. In an age of mass-produced textiles and mechanicalreproduction, new, superficial identities could be recorded and exchanged as easily as garments. She devotes her attention to how the technical resources and potential effects of mechanical reproduction are realized and individualized in particular works. This prominent display of mechanicalreproduction reinforced the architecture's emphasis on technological progress as consistent with, rather than divergent from, the classical tradition. For him these shellac records constituted musical reality, containing as they did the precious last remnants of a world that was no longer accessible except through mechanicalreproduction. The work of art in the age of mechanicalreproduction thus became the work of art designed for reproducibility - for multiplication into the greatest possible number of copies. For a brief textual moment machine talks to machine in the absence of active human agency, as mechanicalreproduction appears to be threatening to produce surrogate humans. Though apprentices and counterfeiters have always copied the masters, mechanicalreproduction is a relatively new phenomenon which has developed in successive booms interspersed with ever briefer rests. These uses include mechanicalreproduction, public performance, synchronization and many other forms of musical distribution. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The blueprint process was first used for mechanicalreproduction of drawings. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many artists argued that photography was the mechanicalreproduction of an image. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of mechanical Go to the definition of reproduction See other collocations with reproduction |
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