Le Chef-d'œuvre inutile. Philosophie the image appears

the image appears

and events that were once just words regain

From Napoleon to John Paul II

is intended to be a light and attractive testimony of a few stolen moments

seeking out the marvelous

Le Chef-d'œuvre inutile. Philosophie the image appearsThe current use of the term masterpiece seems paradoxical. It is denied by the reality of art, which proceeds from a work producing pieces in series; decried by the times, which reject it as an anachronistic, if not antidemocratic, notion; distorted by the market, where it is used to designate the work of an artist that sells for the most money and yet, it persists in the form of a compass, a ne plus ultra, a supreme aesthetic experience: never have