Interesting, dense but lucid consideration of some Kentridge related issues, in Art South Africa 2002 by Ashraf Jamal, who didn’t like the idea of a Kentridge ‘Retrospective’ exhibition. It makes for the kind of semantic fuss which I suspect is a practical impossibility everywhere outside of the distinctly intimidating world of arts discourse. I cant resist quoting a snippet from the concluding paragraph, adressing fashionable and popular opinion “…who, knowing better, invariably follow accredited opinion like swine…”
Perhaps a pointless road to go down, interrogating the locus of value, implicit vs. explicit worth etc. That is part of the nature of art, addressing questions so big, grasping the question and its invariably bigger answers, simultaneously, is just not going to happen today and all that you are left with are the occasionally entertaining semantic skirmishes around essentially indulgent artefacts.