ON ART & PHILOSOPHY LECTURE/EXHIBITION: BLUM & POE, LOS ANGELES LECTURE: NOV. 19TH
T.W. Adorno
Any work of art, to the extent that it is accomplished, borders on the domain of the nonexistent, which is, in our vocabulary, the dimension of incommensurability. What appears in it is not something divine, not an infinite depth, but the brittleness and precariousness of reality itself. Much as the real that is so called and the subject that inhabits it and remains tied in with it imply a promise of consistency: just as certainly is this promise one that, to paraphrase Adorno, is “ever broken.”