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    Aesthetic norms requiring purely optical attention cannot... — Carmelics
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    Aesthetic norms requiring purely optical attention cannot be taken seriously as prescriptions.

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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish that a norm with no possible compliance conditions is not a genuine normative rule but mere pseudo-prescription.
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    • 2.Greenberg's purely optical attention requires bracketing all semantic, historical, and contextual knowledge, a cognitive state neuroscience shows is architecturally impossible for human perceivers.
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    • 3.A prescription that structurally cannot be followed by any human agent fails Kant's 'ought implies can' principle and thus collapses as a normative claim.
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    • 1.Dewey's pragmatist aesthetics in 'Art as Experience' grounds legitimate aesthetic norms in the funded meanings and embodied habits actual perceivers bring to artworks, not in fictive pure sensation.
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    • 2.Richard Wollheim's account of 'seeing-in' demonstrates that pictorial perception is constitutively twofold, making optical isolation from representational content phenomenologically incoherent as a perceptual achievement.
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    • 3.A norm premised on a phenomenologically incoherent perceptual state lacks the ontological grip necessary to function as a genuine prescriptive standard in any art-critical practice.
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    • 1.Standards of aesthetic attention that no one has ever lived up to are not to be taken seriously.
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    • 2.Aesthetic prescription cannot afford to ignore empirical work on how people actually engage with art.
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    • 3.The purely optical standard of aesthetic attention Greenberg advocated is one no one has ever actually achieved.
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    German aesthetics of the late nineteenth century was particularly focused on explaining human attraction to form in picturing, sculpture and building. Not always easy to interpret in detail, the broader themes of this work include the ways that our bodily and ecological situation determine the aesthetic preferences we have for such things as symmetry (Wölfflin 1886), how architectural form is appreciated in terms of its capacity to facilitate movement through space (Schmarsow 1894, and how a sen
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