ABSTRACT
Like Dr. Marquis, you are probably thinking that we have had painting since at least the cave paintings in Lascaux and Chauvet (ca. 25,000 years ago); and it appears that even the Neanderthals made music with tuned bone flutes. Indeed, even in my worst fits of alarmism, I do not claim that music and the visual arts are in any danger of disappearing from the world. But Adorno meant something slightly more, or different, than that when he referred to “art.”
