It was actually meant in the sense of the paradigm art versus engineering. E.g., in software, the pendulum is at about the most extreme it ever was. As for art

It was actually meant in the sense of the paradigm art versus engineering. E.g., in software, the pendulum is at about the most extreme it ever was. As for art as in fine arts, well, the definition changed. (Art theory was rather different in the sixties and seventies, as was the general modus operandi.)