1/ eh, I disagree with this it's easy to snipe at art when you don't really understand it, but it's also possible to bring acute analysis to art even if you don't have the full set of skills to generate it yourself John Clute, for example, is a great science fiction critic >>https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1290625078980419590 …
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3/ ...mmm... I think I disagree with this. The ideal critic is not one who tells midwits what midwits will think of a given work; he is someone skillful who can help EDUCATE enthusiastic but unsophisticated consumers so as to better appreciate art https://twitter.com/ZeroBolusZero/status/1290715977227874305 …
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4/ I'm not saying that I'm a good critic, or even a critic at all, but I'm reminded of something I tweeted a while back, about how I was flipping through Spider Robinson's Three California triptych and realized that in each of the three novels the protagonists in a future Cali >
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5/ ...dug holes in the ground and found fragments of the old California which had preceded them, and how each thing they found was thematically aligned with the plot / purpose of the novel. Me pointing that out to readers lets them appreciate a level of craft that they might
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6/ not notice on their own, but having had their attention called to it, can (a) now appreciate the art in a different light, (b) bring that new sophistication to other pieces of art and appreciate them that way as well. CRITICISM IS A FORM OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION
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As much as I respect Cleese, I think he's missing a crucial point: the *audience* is also generally incapable of producing the thing they're enjoying, but that's no bar to their appreciation for it. A critic is merely someone who can articulate why something works or doesn't.
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