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    It is not the case that Kant argues in the Critique of Judgment that awareness of artistic technique corrupts pure aesthetic judgment by introducing interested, conceptual cognition.

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    • 1.Awareness of technique can deepen appreciation by revealing how form embodies meaning, intensifying rather than diminishing judgment.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'pure' judgment untouched by knowledge and judgment informed by understanding is psychologically impossible.
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    • 3.Kant himself acknowledges genius requires knowledge of rules; completely divorcing aesthetic experience from technique-awareness is incoherent.
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    • 1.Pure aesthetic judgment requires disinterestedness; awareness of technique invokes practical interest in how the work was made.
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    • 2.Conceptual knowledge of artistic methods introduces predetermined categories that filter immediate sensory experience.
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    • 3.The sublime and beautiful arise from free play of imagination; technique-awareness constrains imagination within learned rules.
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