"Art is a wonderful treatment of the notion of an artwork as a social, dialogical object. It moves through the three forms of hypervalued object relations I have described, beginning as a fetish object and thus, conversely, as a despised obscenity, a filthy waste produced. It then evolves into an idol, and finally into a totem. The picture is also a stand0in for the absent women in the play: like a woman, it plays the silent mediator 'between men,' a medium of exchange that provokes and finally settles a crisis in their relatioship." pg. 239
Mitchell, W. J. T. What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images. University Of Chicago Press, 2006.
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This is a very intelligent way of interpreting art, not as something with heirarchy and qualifications, but a function that either works in relationships or not work. I believe in this statement.
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