By their refusal to admit that opera is a total work of art, they have sinned implicitly.
As a consequence, either the architecture is tempted by the ambition of becoming a work of art, or falls directly into anarchy.
Their obvious intent is to create something that is recognised as a work of art.
Any work of art implicitly includes value claims, if only about its own value as art.
The work of art as an experience is not the same.
Can film be a work of art, given that it 'envelops' our senses rather than standing over against us as an object?
Suppose the leading aestheticians conclusively determine that the causal and historical properties of a work of art are irrelevant to its value.
Again, the author's criticism of postmodernism lies in the identification - by the latter - of the work of art with its 'meaning'.