Yeah, only the Enlightened can see the Emperor's clothes.
I've only seen parts of the citation, but they read like every bloviated twenty-paragraph laudatory critique that I've seen posted on the wall of a museum next to a fifty-foot canvas painted half white and half black.
It's not like it's unusual for an artist or writer to be endlessly lauded for things that most people would not exactly consider the height of Western artistic achievement.
Some, like Warhol or Dali, were at least in on the joke.