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I have to investigate the worth of a rare book with crayon on it. Let’s say there’s the last remaining copy, of the most ultimately rare and culturally important book.
This book is accidentally defaced by a child with a crayon, or a page is torn.
They can attempt to repair it. How would that affect its worth?
Willful defacement and destruction of art stretches back to the 455 AD Vandal Sack of Rome and even earlier. Iconoclasm was widespread during the subsequent English Tudor Reformation. The Germans even specifically refer to “Beeldenstorm” (translating as “statue storm”) relating to the destruction of Catholic art and artifacts.
In another special mention, Monet himself committed a famous act of art vandalism. A hotly anticipated Paris exhibition of his art was about to launch in 1908. Before the doors opened however, the artist destroyed all his paintings with a knife and paintbrush.
Vaclav Pisvejc and Hans-Joachim Bohlmann
The vandal was identified as Vaclav Pisvejc, a 57-year-old man, who had previously vandalized other works of art, including defacing Urs Fischer’s sculpture Big Clay #4 with spray paint, and setting fire to a cloth draped over a replica of Michelangelo’s David.
Can vandalism be intervention? rel:Disordered Attention - How We Look at Art and Performance by Claire Bishop. Can the vandal be a performance artist?