Re:The black market in stolen antiquities on Facebook
by ineedasername on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:35AM
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Like paintings indistinguishable from the original until a chemical analysis is performed on the pigment. At which point you really have to wonder at the monetary value placed on the original. To someone appreciating the piece visually, pretty much the whole point, what does it matter?
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Re:The black market in stolen antiquities on Facebook
by pampa on Friday December 18, 2020 @03:59AM
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This topic has been explored since the advent of photography and cinema. When advances in technology allowed to produce indistinguishable copies.
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), by Walter Benjamin [1] is a good starting point on this topic. He was the first to ask what actually constitutes a work of art, if you can cheaply mass produce copies of it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...