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    It is not the case that Artistic enjoyment has an active side, not merely a passive one.

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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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    • 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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