I feared briefly for Nabokov—it wouldn’t be the first time an illiterate mob came to burn his books—but I realized that today’s inquisitors are too illiterate to have him in their sights.https://twitter.com/laurakipnis/status/941536500734464000 …
Dealers are right in valuing art as a commodity, educators and indoctrinators as descriptive or prescriptive illustration, advertisers as a signal of status or a brand etc. But all these uses are irrelevant to the cultural value of the artistic creation as art.