The question that remains is that regarding the nature of this communi-
cated or created meaning as aesthetically significant. Meanings are con-
veyed in political speeches, philosophical papers, and so on. Sometimes
they are exciting and stimulating, but seldom are they aesthetic. Why
should Dali's painting Autumn Cannibalism (1936) be aesthetically interest-
ing, when a paper on the themes that it means to explore, self-destructive
and consuming aspects of civil war and those of a passionate love affair,
though very interesting for other rea