This Scorcese op-ed is an elegant expression of a philosophy of aesthetics that is, I believe, ultimately indefensible https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-marvel.html …
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Aspects of perception are non-cognitive and other aspects of perception are cognitive. Much like eye movements, we can't stop our eyes from doing saccades [random eye movements], but after we do the random eye movement to whatever triggered the spontaneous movement...
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we do have some control over the smooth eye movement that happens afterwards trying to "track and lock" onto the thing we are perceiving. Thus a mixture of the two like yin and yang, we control and are simultaneously not in control of our aesthetic preferences.
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To me, art is an expression of aesthetic emotion in the choice of media, style, subject, color palette, and then execution. If the artist doesn’t like it, out it goes. You’re right. In art there are best practices for technique, but not aesthetic. Judgements are made by viewers.
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You could have art criticism about stuff other than aesthetic properties, like the social context of art or its symbolic meaning. How much art criticism is devoted to whether or not something is beautiful, ugly, etc.?
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lol what kind of an argument is this?
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Yes. The most important aspect of art is it being non-cognitive. This is why it is so dangerous (the use of artistic images in propaganda) and also emancipatory.
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