However, the considerations about death and art seem to me to be on the right track. It is not simply that the plastic arts find their origins in a defense against death, an attempt to make an image that will maintain the living in their death, but that dissemination itself is an effect of death. It is only when the work is orphaned from its producer that it can call to the audience without which it cannot be art. Every work thus puts into play its producer's death. Maybe it's because Bredekamp is from art history and not from media theory.
Art is long.