On "the value of art"

Tranquil scene with fish, colored pencil, from the sketchbooks of Laura Murphy Frankstone at Laurelines

Yesterday I read Michael W. Clune's article, "Bernhard's Way," and have been thinking about his summation of art (in part borrowed from Pierre Bourdieu and his ideas on language as a mechanism of power, reflective of one's position in a social space) as viewed by "the tradition," "the