February 2014 – Saul Albert

From Solnitz’ The Aesthetic Attitude

February 12, 2014

Joseph Beuys, “Wirtschaftswerte” (Economic Values”, 1980)

Martin John Callanan, International Directory of Fictitious Telephone Numbers, 2011

Are we to say that a dirty, run-down slum section is to be called “aesthetic”? What about dull, unexciting things like supplies stacked row upon row in a warehouse or, if you please, the telephone directory?

Stolnitz, J. (1960). The Aesthetic Attitude. In Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art Criticism (pp. 32–42). Houghton Mifflin Co.