The Arts Without Mystery Denis Donoghue , the Henry James ProfessDr of Letters at New York University, gives the second of six lectures on the place of the arts in modern society.
The Domestication of Outrage
The disproportion between the artist and his work - the fact that a little work goes a long wav to sustain a personality. marks a reversal of the traditional relation between the two It was long thought a sign of success in an artist that he disappeared Into his work, leaving no merely personal residue But we have now reached a situation in which privacy and reserve can be converted to visible purpose.'