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    Increased exposure to art makes observers more aware of t... — Carmelics
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    Increased exposure to art makes observers more aware of the objective qualities of a work.

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    • 1.Repeated exposure to works judged good by critics increased liking for those works.
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    • 2.Repeated exposure to works judged bad by critics decreased liking for those works.
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    • 3.A pattern of divergent liking tracking independent quality assessments is best explained by exposure enabling perception of objective qualities.
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    • 1.Increased exposure to art socializes observers into dominant critical frameworks rather than revealing mind-independent properties of works.
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    • 2.Bourdieu's empirical work shows aesthetic taste tracks educational capital and class position, not perceptual access to objective qualities.
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    • 3.A pattern of liking converging with critical consensus is equally well explained by social conformity as by perception of objective qualities.
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    • 1.Goodman and Wollheim argue that what counts as a relevant aesthetic property is partly constituted by the history of a work's production and reception.
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    • 2.If aesthetic properties are partly institutional and relational rather than intrinsic, exposure trains recognition of contextual categories, not perception of observer-independent qualities.
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    Another aspect of fluency is said to be the mere exposure effect: our tendency to find a statement more believable if we have heard it often, repeated hearings leading to progressively more fluent processing (Begg, Anas, & Farinacci 1992). Cutting (2003) investigated an aesthetic variant of the idea: liking for a picture is increased by repeated exposure to it. This, it is suggested, may explain the stability of the artistic canon: works canonical at t are more available to be seen, and the
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