The work of art is undertaken by the practitioner as a means of finding out and defining (if just tonally) something he doesn’t already know. The elaboration of known or imaginable positions in morality, epistemology, politics, feminism needs no forms not already available to rationality and produces no surprise. In art, the form enables a self-becoming that brings up in its arising materials not previously touched on or, possibly, suspected. This confers the edge of advancement we call creativity. The work of art in its primary thrust must be uncompromised by utilitarian aims or applications of any kind so as to prevent all hindrance to the emergences of its newness as a thing-in-itself. Any use, provided standing ideologies allow, can then be made of the work.