现代工业艺术的和现代艺术家是本雅明关心和探讨的中心，他以特有的方式对艺术及艺术家提出了或独的看法：一、震惊体验和波德莱尔的抒情性；二、间离现实的叙事剧和布莱希特；三、技术的发展和现代机械复制艺术；四、诗人、作家在资本主义文化市场中的地位。 Modern industrial art and modern artists are the center of Benjamin’s concern and discussion. He proposes or solves unique views of art and artists in unique ways: First, the shock experience and Baudelaire’s lyricism; Second, The narrative drama and Brecht; third, the development of technology and the art of modern mechanical copying; and fourth, the position of poets and writers in the capitalist cultural market.