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Physical art at last has the property that you can look at it and enjoy it, and that only the person who possesses it can decide who gets to do that. How much

by twic 6y ago

Physical art at last has the property that you can look at it and enjoy it, and that only the person who possesses it can decide who gets to do that. How much of art's value stems from that enjoyment? You're right, probably a negligible amount. For investors, the only important property of physical art is that it's extremely hard to forge.

Rule35 6y ago
And yet people report less enjoyment from looking at art if they think it's a reproduction or forgery, even if they're told it's so close to identical that it fooled the experts.