Give Me Attention Now

 

 “Hardly in any sphere of philosophical science can we find such divergent methods of investigation and exposition, amounting even to self-contradiction, as in the sphere of aesthetics. On the one hand, we have elegant phraseology without any substance, characterized in great part by most one-sided superficiality; and on the other hand, accompanying undesirable profundity of investigation and richness of subject matter, we get a revolting awkwardness of philosophic terminology, infolding the simplest thoughts in an apparel of abstract science, as though to render them worthy to enter the consecrated palace of the system; and finally, between these two methods of investigation and exposition there is a third, forming, as it were, the transition from one to the other, a method consisting of eclecticism, now flaunting an elegant, phraseology, and now a pedantic erudition…A style of exposition that falls into none of these three defects but is truly concrete, and, having important matter, expresses it in clear and popular philosophic language, can nowhere be found less frequently than in the domain of aesthetics.” – M. Schasler

 

Artforum

 

 

Always: Robert Rosenblum, Matthew Higgs, Amy Taubin, Peter Plagens, Steven Henry Madoff

Never: Jack Bankowsky, Isabelle Graw, Andrew Hultkrans

 

 

Wins

Losses

Draws

Gwen Allen

1

 

 

David Anfam

1

 

 

David Antin

1

 

 

Jack Bankowsky

 

11

1

Graham Bader

1

 

 

Daniel Birnbaum

11

1

11

Aaron Betsky

 

1

 

Yve-Alain Bois

1

 

 

Denise Scott Brown

11

 

 

Norman Bryson

1

 

 

Lynne Cooke

1

 

 

Dennis Cooper

11

 

 

Harry Cooper

 

1

 

Cristoph Cox

1

 

 

Jonathan Crary

1

 

 

Thomas Crow

 

1

 

Arthur C. Danto

1

 

1

Diedrich Diederichsen

1

 

 

Matthew Drutt

1

 

 

Carroll Dunham

1

1*

 

Hannah Feldman

˝

 

 

Hal Foster

 

 

1

David Frankel

11 (Kate’s love)

 

 

Michael Fried

11

1

 

Liam Gillick

1

 

 

Alison M. Gingeras

 

 

1

Tim Griffin

111

1

 

Mark Godfrey

 

1

 

Thelma Golden

 

1

 

Isabelle Graw

 

111

 

Bruce Hainley

 

11

 

Scott Hamilton^

 

1

 

Keith Haring

 

1

 

Martin Herbert

1

 

 

Mathew Higgs

1111

 

 

J. Hoberman

1

 

 

Tom Holert

1

 

 

Suzanne Hudson

 

1

 

Henriette Huldisch

1

 

 

Andrew Hultkrans

 

111

 

Caroline A Jones

11

 

 

Jeffrey Kastner

1

 

 

John Kelsey

 

11

 

David Joselit

 

 

1

John Kelsey

 

 

1