There are no criteria available to judge the quality of these crea- tive expressions, because, as Wall states, aesthetic criteria are only valid within the classic disciplines—painting, drawing, sculpture, the graphic arts, and photography. These ‘canonical forms’ are still thriving, by the way, in spite of all efforts by artists to subvert them from within; but they thrive as a separate sector within contempo- rary art, as a genre with its own laws and standards. By contrast, the success of the alternative, pseudo-heteronomous art forms lies in the very fact that they have managed to neutralize these aesthetic
