Beauty versus 'the beautiful'; beauty versus meaning; beauty versus the market.
Art as a fomenting agent of revolution. The artistic institution as the subduer of alternative vision.
I would be very foolish to say what Mr. Hickey was or was not espousing (he's way too smart and articulate and my vocabulary is not up to the task), but my humble take on the essays in The Invisible Dragon would be thus: "when we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change," and, perhaps, when we change the we speak of things, the things we speak of change us. ( )

amazingly insightful. this book helps to put the universe in order.