Highly recommended: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/08/28/go-forth-and-multiply/
"The more of an artist’s art there is out there, the more such art there is in grand institutions, the more fungible your own work becomes, and the more certain you can be of its valuation." "...in the case of small editions like that, the price doesn’t even go down: collectors like buying an edition of three or five, especially if one of the other pieces in the edition ends up in a respected museum." "In other words, the big effect of reproduction on the art world is not fakes, or reproductions of originals. Rather, the first-order effect is the rise in editions, and then the second-order effect is the rise in spectacles and experiences. Neither of them, pace Kaminska, will do any harm to art’s financial value. Quite the opposite: as more art is seen by more people, its desirability will only tend to increase." Needs more Goodman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Art , the argument that exposure will increase value is an old Free Culture one, and Salmon agrees with Kamiska about the value of myth (his "whose hand made them"). But the apparently paradoxical effects of reproducibility on authenticity and the aura that Salmon identifies are areas that artists can do interesting work with as well as benefiting from financially. - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
