What is Cultural Value and How Can it Be Used to Measure Art?
To begin understanding how to measure or pinpoint the value of a work of art we must define what it is we are measuring. Although this task is almost impossible to complete adequately we can give it an honest try. There are two things we can agree upon. First off, if any object in our society is given a monetary value it makes the task of measuring so much easier because the greater the monetary number, the more expensive, and the more valuable. Note that this can be debated but the majority of value scales would agree on this result, therefore to measure the comparative value of anything, we’ll try our best to give it a number value. Second of all, to be able to measure something we have to understand what it is, what are the components that make up the cost. However, understanding what is art or culture is not something we’re going to figure out today or ever. The mystery will always be there, but we can try and dissect what these mean as best as possible. Let’s take the example of t
