

Authenticity in Art
Walter Benjamin, a philosopher and critic was the first to coin the term authenticity in relation to Art in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”. But what exactly did he mean and what do people generally mean when they refer to something being authentic or inauthentic? There are two different terms for the types of authenticity and what it implies. Nominal authenticity, the first description of authenticity, means that the origin of an artwork has