In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the dead reach etern… - Stanisław Lem

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In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the dead reach eternity, spells to be cast, prayers to be liturgically fleshed. . . . The aesthetic component of those instruments enhanced their function but was never central, never an independent, nonutilitarian thing.