Abstract

Collector Item This past May Sotheby’s auctioned the last version of Edvard Munch’s The Scream still in private hands. In the expectation of what was to become the most expensive work of art ever sold, a notable art critic appeared on a television news program in an attempt to explain just what was so valuable about a piece of cardboard smeared with steaks of phosphorescent pastel. As the critic passionately spoke of its psychedelic palate, absorbing composition, and modern angst, the journal...

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