Margaretta Lovell Money Summary

Part of this week's reading is an article titled Money, written by Margaretta Lovell. In this piece, Lovell focuses on the relationship between Art and money, and just how intertwined the two are. The author explains that although the connection is not a well-discussed topic amongst art historians, the bond between money and art persists, affecting artists throughout many aspects of art-making. The writer focuses on the theory of Object Biography; a concept that entails how the value of an object changes over time as its history becomes deeper. As the pieces relevance to the era shifts, and the owner’s change, as well as the residence of the artworks, the monetary worth increase.
An example of this is the case regarding the painting by Fitz