Significant artworks must incorporate a pre-artistic level hostile to art itself

Evidence

The pre-artistic level of art is at the same time a reminiscence of its anticultural trait, its suspicion of its own antithesis to the empirical world that leaves the empirical world undisturbed. Significant works of art nevertheless strive to incorporate this level, one that is inimical to art, within themselves. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 681

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘pre-artistic level’ of art as the anticultural residue art both fears and requires.
• XREF: connects to: A morally indifferent creative current drives humans to make total artworks — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 209; Disturbing art must also exploit the audience’s attraction to what disturbs — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 408; Genuine artistic negation requires being saturated with tradition first — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 165 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A morally indifferent creative current drives humans to make total artworks — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 209; Disturbing art must also exploit the audience’s attraction to what disturbs — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 408; Genuine artistic negation requires being saturated with tradition first — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 165 (+3 more)