http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/property+gifts PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/15134 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/15134 <div class="mlacite">Hyde, Lewis, 1945- .</div><div class="mlacite"><span style="text-decoration: underline">Gift : imagination and the erotic life of property / Lewis Hyde. </span> [0394523016 : ] New York : Random House, 1983. <br />Call#: Van Pelt Library GN449.6 .H93 1983</div><div class="mlacite">&nbsp;</div><div class="mlacite">&quot;A work of art seems to be a hardier breed; it can be sold in the market and still emerge a work of art. But if it is true that in the essential commerce of art a gift is carried by the work from the artist to his audience, if I am right to say that where there is no gift there is no art, then it may be possible to destroy a work of art by converting it into a pure commodity. I don't maintain that art can't be bought and sold, but that the gift portion of the work places a constraint upon our merchandising.&quot;<br /></div><br />quoted in the <a href="../makerecord/url/14532">Ecstasy of Influence</a> <br /> <br />