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    It is not the case that Criticizing conceptual art for failing to yield aesthetic experiences cannot undermine conceptual art on its own grounds.

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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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    • 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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