No matter
aesthetic theory and the self-annihilating artwork
pp. 221-230
in: David Rudrum (ed), Literature and philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 2006Abstract
To begin with, two artworks, one visual, one literary. (We may observe in passing the predicament of "beginning with two' intimated by Jean-Luc Nancy: I am about to suggest that each text can be read as an attempt to present its own essence, that is art "as such'; yet in the attempt to present itself "as such', "art' immediately finds itself consigned to its own ineluctable plurality [visual, literary, musical], that is to "arts'.)1
