Immanent critique

"For immanent criticism, the successful work is 'not one which resolves objective contridictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contridictions, pure and uncompromised, in its inner-most structure.'" p18

Is there a difference between art which points out contridictions that exist in a harmonious reality and art that points out contridictions from an inharmonious worldview. Yes. I think one of them utilizes irony. If that one is the former, that makes the latter as either cynical or very droll.