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

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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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    • 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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