And yet by so investing the material world with significance, these movements also gave immanence a robustness and valorization that no longer seemed to need the transcendent to “suspend” it. In other words, the work of art that could be “iconic” — a window to the transcendent — becomes so fixating in its naturalistic realism that it absorbs our entire gaze and interest and ends up functioning as an idol. For
Art of art's sake and no longer an icon to God. This untethered the supernatural/metaphysical from the art allowing it to be appreciated for its sake. It the JUST NEEDED A NAME to allow it to be separate form God. I.e. Humanism.
And the daughter killed the Mother, Cotton Mather.
