The Value of a Zip

PeterHeywood Helen Creedy

Emotional:It’s not for sale!

Who did you say wanted to buy it?

The Future:- My “name”- Other stuff I make

Cost to make:Materials £15Labour £600Facilities £15Total £630

Price of comparable sculptures: £150??

“All works of art have the potential for commercial value social value and essential value”(Michael Findlay ‘The Value of Art’ 2012, p9)

Commercial

“I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached” Banksy - street artist(BBC News web report 14/10/13 – interview with ‘The Village Voice’ NY)

‘Better out than in’

Social

“There is a basic symbiosis between the commercial value of art and the social value of art in our lives. After all, people like to talk about how much things cost. Owning big price-tag art compels the interests of others in ourselves.”(Michael Findlay, 2012, p194)

Essential

"The 'value' of art is measured only in part, and only very temporarily, by what it would cost you to own it. In fact, I solidly agree with the notion that you never truly 'own' art as much as pay for the right to be its guardian during your lifetime. The value of art is measured more in what we as humans are willing to do to preserve it”(Marion Boddy-Evans www.about.com 14/10/2013)

Poll

1Killing on the Morgue Estate. Grayson Perry, 2004. Sold at Christies in September 2013 for £22,500

2

The Card Players. Paul Cezanne 1894-1895. Sold in April 2011 for £167 million

3

Guennoi Lioness. 3000 BC Sold at Sotherby’s in December 2007 £35.5 million

4

1964 Replica of “Fountain” by Marcel Duchamp Sotherby’s sold one for £1.1 million in 1999

5

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, created by Damien Hirst in 1991Sold in 2004, reportedly for £5 million

6

Red Rum by Shauna Richardson, 2011 Sold in 2013 for £5,000

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Pick One!

Commercial Social Essential

http://vimeo.com/49915502

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17915318

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17141964