ABSTRACT
Few art historians attend conferences in aesthetics or read The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism or The British Journal of Aesthetics—or at least few of them do one of these things for a second time. But I don’t think we should be either puzzled or dismayed. In the first place, art history and aesthetics do overlap, but not much. And secondly, as Quine observed, quality control in philosophy is spotty. This is especially true of conferences, since papers are generally accepted on the basis of an abstract.
