Can art rescue us from technology?

Heidegger argues that the essence of technology is nothing technological.  Rather, technology is driven by enframing, the impulse for humans to order and quantify the natural world as materials and resources waiting for use.  He argues that this enframing causes technology, while not the cause of ecological disasters, to be an exasperating factor.  It becomes the source of a worldview that approaches nature in an unhealthy way.

What can overcome the bleak outlook that we are entrapped in a technological worldview?  Heidegger offers art as an alternative way of uncovering the hidden truth of the natural world.  Art is a form of poiesis, a process which reveals the essence of natural materials in their context, as opposed to the quantitative ordering of enframing.

The notion that art can be a means of revealing hidden truth is exemplified in Heidegger's example of the Rhine River.  He sees it currently (in the 1950s) revealed through technology, as a hydroelectric power plant dams the riverway to harness its power.  He contrasts the revealing through a power work as opposed to the version of the revealed through artwork, specifically in a poem of Friedrich Holderlin entitled "The Rhine."

This poem is a particularly poignant choice, as it describes how the landscape of the Rhine and the distant Alps "devolves /To man yet many a thing /Decided in secret...."  Thus art professes to be an alternative means through which the truth of which Heidegger speaks is disclosed.  This can be attested in the shear volume of poetry, music, and visual art that has been inspired merely by the landscape of the Rhine River, arguably far more than is revealed through geologic surveys or technical reports.

 

Die Lorelei, a rock above the Rhine River that is a famous subject of poetry and art.

(Wikipedia) 

The question that proceeds from this is whether art at its essence could really form a worldview that could displace the one formed by technology.  Among the considerations at hand is the use of technology in almost all forms of economic employment or production.  The arts are often seen as secondary components of society which are fueled monetarily by industry and its technology.  Could people abandon the economic incentive that technology offers and replace it with art?