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ah ha! I see now why the inflated prices, why the obsession over where it came from!
In our hyper-mechanized society, in which mechanical reproduction is so easily within everyone's grasp, the thing which we cannot reproduce is an object's history - that is, the history of the original , its provenance, where it came from and whose hand. THAT is why the Mona Lisa, La Jaconda, is the *Mona Lisa*. This is why the obsession with, "who did it?"
this is the one thing we cannot reproduce.
In our hyper-mechanized society, in which mechanical reproduction is so easily within everyone's grasp, the thing which we cannot reproduce is an object's history - that is, the history of the original , its provenance, where it came from and whose hand. THAT is why the Mona Lisa, La Jaconda, is the *Mona Lisa*. This is why the obsession with, "who did it?"
this is the one thing we cannot reproduce.