Osborne, Peter (2024) Interesting art. New Left Review(150), pp. 156-168. ISSN (print) 0028-6060
Official URL: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii150/articles/pe...
Abstract
This article considers the logical form of judgements of contemporary art setting out from Donald Judd's famous 1965 remark that a work of art 'needs only to be interesting'. It traces the form of the judgement of the interesting back to Friedrich Schlegel's early, proto-Romantic text 'On the Study of Greek Poetry' (1797), and forward to the present, via a critique of Sianne Ngai's recovery of the concept from the standpoint of a 'postmodern aesthetic'. It is through 'the interesting' – and its constitutive under-determination – it is argued, that politics enters art judgement.
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