{"id":9467,"date":"2013-11-24T10:01:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T15:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=9467"},"modified":"2013-11-24T10:01:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T15:01:43","slug":"the-difficult-philosophical-questions-never-go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/11\/24\/the-difficult-philosophical-questions-never-go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"The difficult philosophical questions never go away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his essay, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2013\/12\/damage-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Damage Control<\/a>\u201d (Harper\u2019s Magazine, December 2013), \u00a0Ben Lerner raises the\u00a0touchy subject of the relationship between art and money. Focusing on acts of vandalism to works of art carried out by people who say they are artists, Lerner confronts us with the fact that vandalism that increases the dollar value of a work of art is not considered vandalism. Thus, when the Chapman Brothers purchased a suite of Goya\u2019s \u201cLos Caprichos\u201d etchings, \u201creworked and improved\u201d them, and sold them for $26,000 a print, they were creating art, while if my neighbor were to allow her\u00a0fifteen year old son who enjoys making art\u00a0to draw on the same set of prints, their value would be decreased and his act would be considered vandalism. If a conservator were to be given both sets of prints and not told anything about them, would that conservator feel that both sets required intervention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his essay, \u201cDamage Control\u201d (Harper\u2019s Magazine, December 2013), \u00a0Ben Lerner raises the\u00a0touchy subject of the relationship between art and money. Focusing on acts of vandalism to works of art carried out by people who say they are artists, Lerner confronts us with the fact that vandalism that increases the dollar value of a work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2013\/11\/24\/the-difficult-philosophical-questions-never-go-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The difficult philosophical questions never go away&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":9494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}