The Modern Review(@reviewarchives):Eric Griffiths in 1991: ‘Any genuine human work, including the work of art, creates a ‘now,’ and must do so to be genuine; this ‘now’ happens again whenever someone attends to the work. But identifying that ‘nowness’ with ‘being up to date’ conflates art with fad, something smaller even than fashion.’

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Eric Griffiths in 1991: ‘Any genuine human work, including the work of art, creates a ‘now,’ and must do so to be genuine; this ‘now’ happens again whenever someone attends to the work. But identifying that ‘nowness’ with ‘being up to date’ conflates art with fad, something smaller even than fashion.’