单项选择题

The passage suggests that the post-modernist relegation of an artwork's author to a minor and irrelevant post

A. has resulted in a greater embrace of art forms that are sometimes wholly electronic
B. has failed to entirely counter the notion that art-making originates at some point with an individual
C. has enabled artists to demonstrate the visual and textual connections between art and art criticism
D. has tended to increase the intimacy of creation at the expense of the cognition of artists
E. has tended to subtly reinforce the ways in which artists are perceived as martyrs