The contemporary idea of the "work of art" is paradoxically both widely used and often unexamined. In Deconstruction and the Work of Art: Visual Arts and Their Critique in Contemporary French Thought, Heikkilä shows that the deconstructionist notions of art are still influential in the discourses of contemporary art, in which artworks proliferate and the concept of "work" is open-ended and expanding.
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