The Dialectical Other of Richter's Pictures

"What do we do about the deep profound visual pleasure that we appear to take from Richter's Uve? Is there beauty and its visual pleasure merely a given, an ettantone, or such that it doesn't even require commentary?" "I think, I mean, I'm assuming you accept that part of the deep DNA of art and particularly painting in the West is to make beautiful objects. So where then is beauty's dialectical other?" 'Where does one go with this ravinsching technique of the blur that he uses in some of his most devastating images?''Are these people still alive when they're so old?'" "'They've been around for centuries," says Ben