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    Criticizing conceptual art for failing to yield aesthetic... — Carmelics
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    Criticizing conceptual art for failing to yield aesthetic experiences cannot undermine conceptual art on its own grounds.

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    • 1.Conceptual art aims to convey meaning through a vehicular medium rather than to furnish audiences with aesthetic experiences such as beauty.
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    • 2.A critique is only effective against a project on its own grounds if it targets a feature the project actually claims or aims for.
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    • 3.Aesthetic pleasure is not a feature that conceptual art claims or aims for.
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    • 1.Aesthetic experience is not merely a contingent goal of art but a constitutive condition for something qualifying as art at all.
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    • 2.If conceptual art cannot yield aesthetic experience, it fails not just aesthetically but categorically as art, which is a more fundamental critique than one targeting its own stated aims.
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    • 3.Monroe Beardsley and George Dickie's institutional and aesthetic theories both require that art objects be candidates for aesthetic appreciation, making this critique structurally prior to any project's self-declared intentions.
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    • 1.An artwork's self-declared aims do not exhaust the legitimate criteria by which it may be evaluated, since audiences and critics possess independent evaluative standing.
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    • 2.Nelson Goodman's 'when is art' framework and Frank Sibley's work on aesthetic properties establish that aesthetic responsiveness is a condition of art's cognitive and communicative function, not merely a bonus feature.
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    • 3.If aesthetic properties are the medium through which conceptual content is perceived and interpreted, then conceptual art's rejection of aesthetic experience undermines its own vehicular communicative project from within.
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    Now, even if it is granted that art need not be aesthetic, it is still possible to hold that conceptual art does not qualify as good art because it does not (aim to) yield aesthetic experiences. But while this may be a viable position to hold in relation to the project of conceptual art in general, it cannot be used to attack conceptual art on its own grounds. Saying, for example, of Michael Craig-Martin’s An Oak Tree that one cannot consider it a great work of art because it fails to give rise
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