Ⅲ. Blank-filling（請忽略大小寫）
        The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition.This tradition itself is thoroughly alive and extremely changeable. An ancient statue of Venus, forexample, stood in a different traditional context with the Greeks, who made it an object of veneration,than with the clerics of the Middle Ages, who viewed it as an (26)_____ idol. Both of them, (27)_____ , wereequally confronted with its uniqueness, that is, its aura. Originally the contextual integration of art intradition found its expression in the cult. We know that the earliest art works originated in the service ofa ritual—first the magical, then the religious kind. It is significant that the existence of the work of artwith (28)_____ to its aura is never entirely separated from its ritual function. (29)_____ , the unique value ofthe “authentic” work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualisticbasis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of thecult of beauty. The secular cult of beauty, developed during the Renaissance and (30)_____ for threecenturies, clearly showed that ritualistic basis in its decline and the first deep crisis which befell it. Withthe (31)_____ of the first truly revolutionary means of reproduction, photography, simultaneously with therise of socialism, art sensed the approaching crisis which has become evident a century later. At thetime, art reacted with the (32)_____ of l’art pour l’art, that is, with a theology of art. This gave rise to whatmight be called a negative theology in the form of the idea of “pure” art, which not only denied anysocial function of art but also any categorizing by subject matter.
          An analysis of art in the age of mechanical reproduction must do justice to these relationships, forthey lead us to an all-important insight: for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction(33)_____ the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an ever greater degree the work of artreproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility. From a photographic negative, forexample, one can make any number of prints； to ask for the “authentic” print makes no sense. But the(34)_____ the criterion of authenticity (35)_____ applicable to artistic production, the total function of art isreversed. Instead of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice—politics.

 (AB) ceases to be (AC) doctrine (AD) however (AE) emancipates(BC) advent (BD) ominous (BE) instant (CD) in other words(CE) prevailing (DE) reference
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