 Both formulations imply a close connection between valuing the work and valuing the maker, helping thereby to explain how an interest in the authenticity of a work can belong to the space of aesthetic reasons. It also suggests a connection with our desire to preserve and possess otherwise unremarkable objects because of their relation to some person or event that interests us (JFK’s sweater). Some psychologists have thought to bring art works and other valued artefacts together under the heading of contagion, the idea that