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    Artistic enjoyment has an active side, not merely a passi... — Carmelics
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    Artistic enjoyment has an active side, not merely a passive one.

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    • 1.Without the spectator's contemplation or the reader's reading, the artwork's expression remains purely subjective.
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    • 2.The artwork becomes objective and manifests its sense in actuality only through the symbolic consumption of the audience.
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    • 3.The act of symbolic consumption mobilises the audience's own power of expression and imagination.
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    • 1.Kant's aesthetic theory holds that genuine aesthetic judgment requires disinterested contemplation, excluding active subjective engagement.
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    • 2.If the audience's own expressive powers are mobilised, the experience becomes interested and personal, corrupting the universality of aesthetic judgment.
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    • 3.An 'active' audience contribution thus undermines, rather than completes, the artwork's objective aesthetic value.
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    • 1.Clement Greenberg's formalist aesthetics holds that a work's meaning is fully encoded in its formal properties, independent of reception.
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    • 2.If symbolic consumption by audiences were necessary for artistic meaning, works would lack determinate content before being experienced, making criticism impossible.
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    • 3.The historical practice of authoritative art criticism presupposes that artworks possess stable, audience-independent aesthetic properties.
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    Nevertheless there is also an active side to artistic enjoyment, as in reading, for example. Without the spectator’s contemplation, or the reader’s reading, the artwork’s expression remains purely subjective. It becomes objective, manifesting its sense in actuality, only through the symbolic consumption of the audience. This act, however, is not passive: it mobilises the audience’s own power of expression and imagination. Reading, watching, or listening are, as Sartre puts it, “directed creation
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