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    Artwork involves a freedom that belongs not only to the artist but also to the audience.

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    • 1.In existentialist terms, freedom is 'engaged' — irreducibly caught up in engagement and forced to respond.
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    • 2.The artwork creates a situation in which both artist and audience are implicated in this engaged freedom.
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    • 1.Gadamer argues that artwork carries its own historically-sedimented meaning through 'Wirkungsgeschichte', constraining rather than liberating audience interpretation.
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    • 2.If tradition and the work's own horizon pre-structure understanding, audience 'freedom' is better described as guided disclosure than existentialist engaged freedom.
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    • 1.Bourdieu's sociology of aesthetic reception shows that responses are conditioned by habitus and cultural capital, not freely chosen engagement.
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    • 2.What existentialists call 'engaged freedom' in the audience may be ideological misrecognition of socially determined dispositions masquerading as autonomous response.
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    Therefore the artwork involves a freedom that is not just that of the artist, but also that of the audience. In existentialist language, it is freedom considered as ‘engaged,’ that is, irreducibly caught up in engagement and forced to do something about it. Hence, Sartre offers another definition of the artwork that identifies the different poles of the metaphysical power of art: “… the writer has chosen to reveal the world and particularly to reveal man to other men so that the latter may assum
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