单选题 Which of the following best states the author's main point about artists who have abandoned the hierarchical distinction between art and theory?

• (A) Theirs is a sterile, abstract practice, unlikely to produce few lasting works.
• (B) They have demonstrated that critics are less important to the art-making process than the public commonly believes.
• (C) They have laudably focused their energy on exposing the extent to which theory informs their own practice.
• (D) They have, to the detriment of their work, lost track of inner realm of the creator.
• (E) They have demonstrated a positive alternative to critics who have abandoned their field to become artists.