the morality of art in the age of mechanical reproduction

Some modern art is worthless trash....like Richard Prince blowing up other people's instagram images and framing them, and Marcel Duchamp's infamous urinal. The problem with works like that, I think, is that they involve no creativity. They are not 'made things'. They are 'found things'. It wouldn't be so bad if there was some meaningful editing or adjustment - some augmentation - of the found things, but there isn't. 

Still, it's very lucrative. Richard Prince's blown up instagram images sell for around $100,000.00 each.