This echoes a conversation I have often with my girlfriend; how art and qualitative works are ranked in society. An artist seems to have to be general enough t

This echoes a conversation I have often with my girlfriend; how art and qualitative works are ranked in society. An artist seems to have to be general enough to appeal and be understood by an audience while original enough to be compared to other genius on method but not content. That is abstract but hopefully the point was there. The second piece is groupthink. For example, what would happen if the first 10 well respected critics said his follow on novel was so brilliant it outshined his earlier work. I don't know, but there as a degree of taste shaping, a degree of originality & and a degree of tradition that make up the "value" and it is interesting to think about.