... strategy for the transvaluation of art, art itself being the herald of an anticipated radical transvaluation of human values. But the success of this strategy must mean its eventual abandonment, or ... McLuhan, that a devaluation of the power and credibility of images has taken place that’s no less profound than. and essentially similar to, that afflicting language.) And, as the prestige of language ... meta-absolutes of “sacred” and “profane,” “human” and “divine,” that the disaffection with language itself has been charted. In particular, the antecedents of art’s dilemmas and strategies...