Why Live Music?
Gary Lawrence Murphy,
Teledyn,
Dec 22, 2003
To put the issue of copying in a different perspective: how many copies of the Mona Lisa would it take to devalue the original? How often would you have to see the image - bootlegged or otherwise - before it would no longer be worth seeing the original? The answer, of course, is that the original only appreciates in value. When copying became possible, we became deluded into thinking that the copy was of value, that it was something we should pay for. But we lost in that time the sense of what makes, say, a concert, an art show, a lecture, important. "Newman's canvas (Voice of Fire escapes the problem completely. To bootleg his canvas, you can only allude to the place, and to capture any sense of the experience, you have to go there and see it for yourself - in one fell stroke of a stripe of red midst the deep blues, Barnett Newman defeated the entire reprint industry." Via Seb.
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