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    It is not the case that An 'active' audience contribution thus undermines, rather than completes, the artwork's objective aesthetic value.

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    • 1.Aesthetic value emerges from interaction between work and observer; excluding audience response treats artworks as inert objects rather than communicative acts.
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    • 2.Historical artworks (Duchamp, Cage, participatory installation) achieve recognized aesthetic significance precisely through audience co-creation and interpretation.
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    • 3.The claim assumes a single 'objective' aesthetic value exists independent of experience; but aesthetic properties are relational, not absolute essences.
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    • 1.Aesthetic value requires stable, determinate properties; audience alteration introduces subjective variance that destabilizes the work's identity.
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    • 2.The artist's intentional design embodies specific formal relationships; audience modification breaks these relationships, diminishing aesthetic coherence.
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    • 3.Great artworks demonstrate completeness through constraint; unlimited audience input removes necessary limitations that define aesthetic achievement.
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