I like William's idea of distinguishing three kinds of responses: liking,
appreciation, and aesthetic engagement.
How do we know someone likes something ? By self-reporting.
How do we know someone appreciates something? By administering some kind of
test (multiple choice will do) that checks conformity to authoritative
opinion.
But how do we know when someone is aesthetically engaged ?
And -- why put these three kinds of responses on a scale (from low to high) ?
Isn't aesthetic engagement possible without any art appreciation at all ?
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"My own view is that "appreciation" is very low on the scale from liking to
aesthetic engagement because it does not evoke inherently aesthetic content
even if it can be assigned such content by True Docents."
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