Philosophy professor Gary Cutting has a thing or two to say about Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes.
He confesses that regardless of their iconic status in the art world, the boxes, and by extension the entire corpus of Warhol's work, does "very little" for him.
In other words, Warhol maybe an artist but he does not necessarily produce aesthetically moving experiences in the minds of many a beholder of his art:
Praise of Andy Warhol often emphasizes the new possibilities of artistic creation his work opened up. That would make his work important in the history of art and for that reason alone of considerable interest. But, as Jerrold Levinson and others have pointed out, a work can be an important artistic achievement without being an important aesthetic achievement. This, I suggest, is how we should think about Warhol’s Brillo boxes.
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