Abstract
THE WRITINGS OF ARTISTS about their art comprise a vast and growing literature about the arts. What relation, if any, is there among these writings, the art works of their author-artists, and art in general? Synoptically, what is the character of these writings? In this paper, I shall consider several ready candidates for answers to this question. These answers may seem to some drearily unsatisfactory and their defects tiresomely obvious. What are interesting about these unsatisfactory answers are the reasons why they cannot be correct. These reasons suggest a different answer to that question, and one that illuminates an interesting aspect of the creative enterprise. MLapping new territory requires adopting one of alternative audacities. Among these is the alternative of imposing sharp boundaries upon a continuous terrain, or else of representing the continuous gradations of the terrain but selecting certain features for emphasis. My subject here lends itself to the second audacity.
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