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They were also making things like fake memorabilia. For say a baseball bat with a Babe Ruth signature it is pretty obviously the authenticity of the signature w
by goto11 6y ago
They were also making things like fake memorabilia. For say a baseball bat with a Babe Ruth signature it is pretty obviously the authenticity of the signature which makes it worth something, not the "intrinsic value" of a bat with some ink on.
There is this attitude that it is somehow wrong to value authenticity when it comes to art, but I don't really get it. Surely an authentic historical artifact is more interesting than a fake.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoAnother view could hold that, in exposing a fake, one is deliberately destroying the value of an artifact. The 'real criminal' is the one doing the exposing. Until then, everybody was happy and the artifact had 'real' value.
- gilrain 6y agoJust like how your partner isn't cheating on you if you never find out? Seems like a silly view.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoCome on. There have been paintings for 100's of years considered by a master, and later study disproves it. Were they valuable all that while? Sure they were.
- gilrain 6y agoYou mean, did the thing they were assumed to be have value all that time? Yes. But then it was discovered that they were not that thing.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoDoes 'value' mean what people would pay for the thing? They paid lots for those 'fake' paintings. Ergo, they had value. The value was destroyed by looking a little too carefully at their provenance. I simply observe that the value was destroyed not by the artist that created them, but by the investigator. That much seems obvious. But whom to blame? That's a human moral issue. I suggest we could reasonably blame the investigator.
- goto11 6y agoYou are basically rejecting the idea that something can be fake. If I faked a letter from Albert Einstein where he confessed to secretly being a Christian I'm sure people consider it of great value. Would it "destroy value" if someone figured out it was actually a hoax?
- daseiner1 6y agoi wasn’t going to hell until i was told about the whole “God” fiasco
- bluGill 6y agoOr so you thought at the time.