I think that is one of many valid functions of art. I keep thinking about Renee Magritte. The notion that a painting is a representation of somethings else, but is also paint, canvas, and image. We accept that painting as a pipe. Is it? The destabilization, like the article is (I think) talking about is clearly present here. I do think that there are other functions of art, and that in asking a question about identity, we cannot discount the answer that art has many identities as well. Can art make people question their essential sense of self? Absolutely. It can also reaffirm. Or expand. Or confound.
The author may be too exclusive when he states that the main purpose is to destabilize subjective experience and "not to author a new theoretical position, nor to illustrate an established argument". Those aims can also be accomplished. The experience should not be limited.
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