Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Derrida mentions that an aesthetic discourse always involves values and interests, independent from “a pure and neutral aesthetic realm”.
Statement II: Derrida believed that the outside influence in assessment of aesthetics always enters as and when philosophers and historians point out the element of “truth”.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

The correct option is Both statement I and statement II are correct.

Analysis of Statement I:
Jacques Derrida's deconstructive approach to aesthetics challenge the Kantian idea of a "disinterested" and "pure" aesthetic judgment. Derrida, particularly in his work The Truth in Painting (specifically in his analysis of the parergon���the frame or boundary), argues that what is considered "inside" the work of art (the pure aesthetic) and "outside" (biography, history, economic interests, ideology) cannot be neatly separated. Therefore, an aesthetic discourse is never completely neutral or isolated in a "pure and neutral aesthetic realm"; it is always bound up with external values, frames, and interests. This makes Statement I correct.

Analysis of Statement II:
Derrida examines how philosophers (like Kant or Hegel) and historians attempt to define or evaluate art by linking it to some external concept of "truth" or essence. By importing these philosophical and historical frameworks of "truth" to analyze or judge art, they allow outside or external influences to permeate the evaluation of aesthetics. The boundary between the work itself and the commentary or truth claims made about it collapses, letting the "outside" influence enter the assessment. Thus, Statement II is also correct.