Is Boring art just Boring?

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (4):425-426 (1995)
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Recent articles in this journal by Frances Colpitt and Richard Lind have attempted to defend some works of minimal and conceptual art against the charge of being boring. I am skeptical about both of these attempts

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