CIAO DATE: 07/05
Picture of Privilege?
On the Issue
May 2004
Charles Murray
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Abstract
Owning great art need not be beyond the reach of the general public. The technology exists to create highquality reproductions of artworks, but thus far it has not been widely utilized due to the art world's conflation of the pleasure of being in the presence of a historic object with the pleasure derived from being in the presence of great art.