Contemporary echoes of Kantian aesthetics

In the early 1990s, several art critics and philosophers took part in a public debate concerning the state of creation and the situation of the artworld in France. The Esprit and Télérama journals dedicated some issues to what was called the "crisis of contemporary art", namely the supposed loss of normative criteria allowing one to judge and evaluate works of art. Following their publication, several French philosophers1 took position on this presumed "crisis" of contemporary art and, consequently, reactivated a question already present in the Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant (that is about two centuries before): how to judge a work of art? Are our judgements subjective or can they claim a certain universality?