Really Boring Art

There is little question as to whether there good boring art, though its existence raises a number of questions for both the philosophy art and emotions. How can boredom ever be desideratum art? our standing commitments concerning nature aesthetic experience artistic value accommodate being bored constitute an appropriate mode engagement with work More broadly, how works whose very success requires boredom? Our goal in this paper threefold. After offering brief survey kinds we: i) derive set that we argue constitutes philosophical problem art; ii) elaborate empirically informed theory furnishes deeper sense affect at heart phenomenon; iii) conclude by defending solution explains why artworks might wish make key their success.