I’ve been working on a piece for ages which has now seen the
light of day in one form here at the Journal of Art Historiography. It’s about
aesthetic judgment in art historical writing. My claim is that a tacit aesthetic
judgment is at play in choosing what theoretical model is applied to art – in so
far as the model is made to “match” the object.
My feeling is that this has wider implications than art history
(although that is an excellent place to test this theory out). Not least, I
will argue, in thinking about a tacit aesthetics in systems-theory and the
will-to-system. More on this to follow...
