Adam has an idea of art here that I think it a bit of a modernist perspective, rooted in a definition. In reality artists these days occupy perspectivism in that there's been a branching out of all approaches and considerations.

I think you're focusing here on an antithetic approach, maybe specifically an anti-individualism. That could be on point as I think one of the compulsions of people labeled as artists tends to be to generally consider alternatives or oppositions to things, and as Adam has highlighted, we're exiting a Century of Self.

I recall liking some of Adam's sentiments in the last episode of 'Can't Get You Out of My Head', which you seem to be suggesting... that is that perspectives are slowly moving away from a sense of individualism. The idea of a lone-artist that creating their own zeitgeist is diminishing. To stray too far from a group-think tends to just be alienating. I've heard and been sensitive to a reality that in order to bring people around to more radical ideas that there needs to be substantial grounding. If the entire artwork has no points for comparison then it will be lost in the flow, uninterpretable, and entirely non-viral.