“With Hindsight...”

What is to be done with contemporary artists, as they are known, when time has passed? Do we talk in the same way today about works produced in the 1960s as we did ten years ago? What is it—what time limit that is unstated yet felt by one and all—that has us suddenly casting an eye back on a given work as if it were from now on escaping the realm of art criticism, the better to be included in that of art history? These are all issues raised, each in its own way, by certain recent works whose ..