Would you please explain the meaning of theses two sentences especially the latter one?
Furthermore, consideration of the 'value' of the original work in its tresure house setting impresses upon the viewer that, since these works were originally produced, they have been essigned a huge monetary value by some person or institution more powerful than themselves. Evidently, nothing the viewer thinks about the work is going to alter that value, and so today's viewer is deterred from trying to extend that spontaneous, immediate, self-reliant kind of reading which would originally have met the work.
jaleh nothing the viewer thinks about the work is going to alter that value = the viewer's opinion of the artwork will not change its monetary value jaleh reading which would originally have met the work = opinions which the first viewers would form about the artwork when it was first shown.
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jaleh nothing the viewer thinks about the work is going to alter that value
= the viewer's opinion of the artwork will not change its monetary value
jaleh reading which would originally have met the work
= opinions which the first viewers would form about the artwork when it was first shown.