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Hi everybody:
Please don’t go looking for this if you
don’t know offhand (I can do that), but a patron here needs either 1) the
average price for which a particular (and apparently minor) contemporary
artist’s originals (not prints) have gone over the years, or 2) the data
on the basis of which to reconstruct this. In the various guides to the
reference literature, I see references to the big auction-data serials and
databases, but what if the person sells his work privately, or via a gallery?
Is there a tool that captures this? (And anyway these databases seem to be
mostly subscription-based.)
Meanwhile, I’ll keep looking.
Hey, my expertise is in theology! J
Steve Perisho
Theology/Humanities/Fine Arts Librarian
Tel.: 206 281 2417; Fax: 206 281 2936
“Pagan religion was on the whole a religion
with neither a metaphysic nor an ethic.
“With Christianity it is in both cases completely
otherwise. To the Christian faith belong [1] its justification and foundation
by means of reason (and therefore theology or dogmatics in the broad sense of
that word), and [2] implications for the lifestyle of the believer (and
therefore ethics or morals). To put it another way, faith and religion require
in the Christian understanding both [2] the love of neighbor and [1] a claim to
the truth of that to which faith testifies that has been established rationally.
On the basis of this character, which among other things it inherited from
Judaism, Christianity had an effect upon the culture (and not just narrowly the
religion) of antiquity so transformative that Western culture right down to the
present day remains influenced by it.”
Alfons Fürst, “Der Einfluss des
Christentums auf die Entwicklung der kulturellen Identität Europas in der
Spätantike,” Jahrbuch für Antike und
Christentum 43 (2000): 8, somewhat loosely translated.