... dubious, version of the notion of silence, which invokes the idea of the ineffable.” The theory supposes that the province of art is the beautiful,” which implies effects of unspeakableness, ... leaves silence in its wake Silence, administered by the artist, is part of a program of perceptual and cultural therapy, often on the model of shock therapy rather than persuasion Even if the artist’s ... be found in the radical wing of the mystical tradition (Cf., among Christian texts, the Mystica Theologica of Dionysius the Areopagite, the anonymous Cloud of Unknowing the writings of Jacob Boehme...