In article <[log in to unmask]>,
Brian M Decker <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> common item, and people may no longer desire to view the original.  Why go
> to a museum to see it when you can look at a representation of the same thing
> hanging on your wall?  The impression that the work may have had on people
>
> Brian Decker

This is something that needs a proper study.  I've seen thousands of images of
"Mona Lisa", and there must be hundreds of thousands of images around, yet
people still go to considerable effort to see the real thing.  Once one has
seen an original of any of the great masters, one realizes how poor a
representation they've been looking at in reproductions.

Robin Panza             [log in to unmask]
Section of Birds
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Pittsburgh  PA  USA  15213