Blog: Merry Swankster

There are two decisive camps with regards to the worth of ranking and filing art. Some, such as this writer, find great value in categorizing and creating a hierarchy of taste. Others believe that aesthetic appreciation is entirely a matter of opinion; that quantifying art is a useless exercise because saying what is "good" and therefore "better" is simply a matter of personal preference and cannot be definitively discussed. Yet, whether simply providing a service or asserting definitive claims, list making presupposes senses of authority and narcissism for its writers by playing off (the largely fabricated) identities of need and [...]