The architectural narration of the apartment designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret for the Count Charles de Bestegui on Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris, which specifies an image of the city through the rhetoric of the oxymoron and some considerations by Le Corbusier on the French philosopher's George Bataille thought, lead to wider and more up-to-date reflections concerning the epistemological status of Art. On the one hand, the Artist, a tragic hero whose life is spent as a sacrifice given to humanity in search of those means of expression that allow us to describe the ineffable, on the other the Art, the only tool of knowledgeable to tell concepts, thoughts and ideas when, beyond the limits of rationality, myth is superimposed ...