The Pop insurgents squared serious art with the larger culture by embracing — or, in the case of Lichtenstein's pseudo-Ben Day dots, simulating — techniques of mechanical reproduction.
Exploiting new techniques of colour reproduction, they created such things as Think, a 22-screen IBM-sponsored installation at the 1964-65 NeWorldk World's Fair, in which an audience was immersed in a display of the ways that human and computerised problem-solving governed railway networks, financial transactions, the seating at a dinner party, or the tactical plays in American football.
Benjamin is generally interpreted as claiming that the advent of techniques of mechanical reproduction has undermined the quasi-religious "aura" that previously surrounded the individual work of art.
Judaism allows the practice of all techniques of assisted reproduction when the oocyte and spermatozoon originate from the wife and husband, respectively (Schenker, 2005).
To reproduce the fashionable paintings of the day, commercial engravers perfected a whole arsenal of reproduction techniques, such as mezzotint, stipple engraving and etching, and crayon manner.
Though the ministry of health stipulates that the use of reproduction techniques such as IVF must conform to China's "family planning policy", surrogacy is one way moneyed parents bypass the one-child rule.
Although there are clear signs that sex-selective abortion following prenatal sex determination is an increasing problem in Vietnam (14), it is important to note that the use of ultrasound or other sex selection techniques at different stages of reproduction are not causative factors for sex selection (26– 26).
Biermann had complained that people "do not sing so much any more" and that "the explosion of techniques for the reproduction of sound has, in a certain sense, made people dumb".
They will be assessed with special reference to ethical implications in respect of assisted reproduction techniques, of worldwide importance today, particularly for a country such as India.
