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Maps as Art

Started by Hot Rod Hootenanny, October 28, 2010, 10:32:02 PM

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Hot Rod Hootenanny

Have to give credit where credit is due. Former MTR poster Ray Mullins referenced this site via Facebook yesterday.
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agentsteel53

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1100 dollars is affordable now?  Dang.  I could slave over a sheet of 36x24 paper and spend maybe $350 of my time, generating an item I'd be happy to sell for 500 ... and expect to be laughed out of town at my high prices!

I'd just go with the laser cutting.  Materials do not define expression.
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J N Winkler

Notwithstanding the use of "affordable" in the advertisement (probably to lure punters who are just a teensy bit worried about their loft mortgages), I think these are Giffen goods.
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mightyace

Quote from: J N Winkler on October 29, 2010, 04:49:12 PM
I think these are Giffen goods.

Maybe this shows my lack of "sophistication," but what are "Giffen goods?"
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agentsteel53

Quote from: mightyace on October 29, 2010, 06:59:36 PM


Maybe this shows my lack of "sophistication," but what are "Giffen goods?"

in short, a good whose demand increases with price, in contradiction to how standard goods behave.

raise the price on a Chevy, and people will buy Fords instead.  raise the price on an Enzo Ferrari, on the other hand...
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kurumi

I have to nitpick about this: Veblen goods are those items where desirability increases with price (designer handbag, Whole Foods, etc... think Thorston Veblen, "conspicuous consumption")... while Giffen goods see demand increase because other competing or supplementary goods are "starved out" of the spender's budget.
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J N Winkler

The empirical distinction between Veblen and Giffen goods is not sharply defined and personally I think a case could be made either way.  It is also true that the examples of Giffen goods traditionally offered in the literature have been products or commodities which middle-class people tend to think of as cheap--e.g. bread, which squeezes out more luxurious farinaceous goods like cake.

My argument that these map screens are Giffen goods is based on the observation that they are craft products rather than art, but are nevertheless intended to fill the same functional niche as art (wall hangings or room decoration).  Because they are craftwork and supply is not capped, they are inferior to other objects, such as a limited-edition Rauschenberg print, which likewise fulfill the decorative function but are also appreciating investments.  It is also unclear that paying, say, $10,000 rather than $1,000 for a map screen enhances distinctiveness or snob value, which is the defining criterion of a Veblen good.

To the extent that a higher price for the map screens squeezes out superior goods like investment artworks, they can be regarded as Giffen goods.
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