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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Institutional theory(as a theory about what defines art)
The idea that something counts as art because the art world—museums, galleries, critics, artists—treats it as art, rather than because of what it physically is.
Monroe Beardsley(his theory about literary meaning is being discussed here)
An American philosopher who studied aesthetics (the philosophy of art and beauty) and how literary meaning works.
Structurally prior(describing the logical order of ideas in the argument)
More fundamental or logically first—something that must be true before other things can follow from it.