The Extimate and the Artwork as ‘Un-work’:

On the Problems of Art and Attentiveness: Andrew McNiven’s films

John Roberts

John Roberts is Professor of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Wolverhampton. His books include The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and the Everyday; The Philistine Controversy (with Dave Beech); Philosophizing the Everyday; The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade; and The Necessity of Errors. He is also a contributor to Radical Philosophy, Oxford Art Journal, Historical Materialism, Third Text, and Cabinet magazine.