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    An artwork is valuable because it conveys itself, not bec... — Carmelics
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    An artwork is valuable because it conveys itself, not because it conveys a particular emotion.

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    • 1.Aesthetic value is not reducible to an object's effect.
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    • 2.Conveying an emotion is a type of effect an artwork has on its audience.
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    • 3.Therefore, conveying an emotion cannot be the source of an artwork's value.
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    • 1.Hanslick's formalism notwithstanding, Tolstoy's infectionist theory holds that art's defining function is the sincere transmission of felt emotion.
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    • 2.If transmitting emotion is constitutive of art rather than merely an effect, then emotional conveyance is internal to artistic identity, not reducible to mere audience effect.
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    • 3.A theory that excludes the communicative emotional bond between artist and audience cannot account for why music across cultures functions as a primary vehicle of communal feeling.
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    • 1.P2 in the supporting argument conflates causal effect with intentional expression, yet expression theorists like Collingwood distinguish clarifying and externalizing emotion as the very process by which art is made.
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    • 2.If emotional conveyance is partly constitutive of artistic creation rather than a downstream audience-effect, then P2 misclassifies it, and P3 does not follow.
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    The role of extra-musical references in the understanding of music raises the issue of whether Wittgenstein should be considered a formalist (see Ahonen 2005, and Szabados 2006; 2014). A decidedly formalist element in Wittgenstein’s aesthetics is his separation of the understanding and appreciation of music from the effect it has on us—the move is similar to Hanslick’s (see §1.6; on Wittgenstein and Hanslick, see Szabados 2014, 39–57; 94–97). Aesthetic value in general, and music’s value more
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