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    If art is defined in terms of aesthetic experience, then ... — Carmelics
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    If art is defined in terms of aesthetic experience, then conceptual art cannot be considered a kind of art.

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    • 1.Conceptual art does not aim at having aesthetic value.
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    • 2.Art defined in terms of aesthetic experience must produce or aim at aesthetic value.
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    • 1.Aesthetic experience encompasses intellectual and perceptual responses beyond mere sensory pleasure, as Dewey argues in 'Art as Experience' (1934).
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    • 2.Conceptual art reliably produces intellectual engagement, critical reflection, and perceptual defamiliarization that constitute genuine aesthetic experience.
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    • 3.Therefore, conceptual art produces aesthetic experience under a robust, historically grounded account of that concept.
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    • 1.The institutional theory of art (Dickie, Danto) demonstrates that 'art' is correctly defined by social and institutional recognition, not aesthetic experience.
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    • 2.If the antecedent premise 'art is defined in terms of aesthetic experience' is false, the conditional claim yields no sound conclusion about conceptual art's status.
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    However, not everyone has endorsed such a liberal view about the separation between the aesthetic and the artistic[7]. If art does not aim at having aesthetic value, what, one might argue, will set it apart from non-art? Which view one decides to favour on this point may well end up being an issue about definition. If one wishes to define art in terms of aesthetic experience, the question finds a clear-cut answer, namely that conceptual art simply cannot be considered a kind of art. The down-s
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