Volume 12, Issue 2, Summer 2005
The Ownership of Common Goods
Catharine Abell
Pages 76-81
The Public Cost of Private Ownership of Artworks
I argue that artworks are of public value because aesthetic experience of them contributes to the development of our aesthetic
judgement. I use two accounts of aesthetic judgement to explore how it might do so and how the private ownership of artworks could affect the development of our aesthetic judgement.