In other words, a work that is ‘necessary’ because its social critique is particularly relevant, or urgent, can be said to be art when that critique cannot be separated from a sublimity that reaches into every aspect of the work. (Perhaps all great art is ‘necessary’ in some sense). But when a work has no sublimity, and yet retains by its message a ‘necessity’ that belongs to, say, the strictly social order, it does not obtain to the level of art. Which, fine, who needs it to be art? But I would maintain that we ought not to mistake one thing for another; we ought to distinguish between such things, otherwise we confuse and deceive ourselves.