I find that you offer a rationale of fluidist art (and phiolosophy) as an antedote to what you refer to as the loss of belief in “universal truth” and “universal beauty” in art, as in life.
I cannot judge on this evidence whether you have been successful, as the argument developes across and depends upon so many complex levels of conceptualisation, philosophy and language, but I would add that I have always seen the search for “universal truth” and “universal beauty” in art as being necessary 'creation myths', since (in my view) neither can ever be fully realised through artistic creativity, or at least no so as to achieve universal acceptance - one person's truth and beauty being another's error and ugliness (or kitch).
But the search for these two core values in fine art does remain necessary, since any artist of integrity should at least be able to search in their work for some form of 'truth' (if only being true to themselves) and/or whatever they consider to be beautiful whether in terms of ideas or images.
david:>)
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