Le Chef-d'œuvre inutile. Arts are studied in this work

are studied in this work

University of California (Berkeley)

Work published with the assistance of the National Center for Scientific Research

Daniel Arasse thus inspires a desire to see or re-see great moments in painting

Le Chef-d'œuvre inutile. Arts are studied in this workThe current use of the term masterpiece seems paradoxical. It is denied by the reality of art, which proceeds from a work producing pieces in series; decried by the times, which reject it as an anachronistic, if not antidemocratic, notion; distorted by the market, where it is used to designate the work of an artist that sells for the most money and yet, it persists in the form of a compass, a ne plus ultra, a supreme aesthetic experience: never have