--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Appreciating art > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 4:29 PM > I like William's idea of distinguishing three kinds of > responses: liking, > appreciation, and aesthetic engagement. > > If there's one thing I hate it's the multiple choice question. It's all but > worthless for gauging a respondent's ability to demonstrate knowledge or > critical analysis. Appreciation can be acquired in many ways in addition to > direct instruction. Most of our appreciation is gained secondarily, > passively, by chance, or by personal effort. Much appreciation has nothing to > do with opinion but with actual historical or reasoned facts. You overstate > the importance of "the appeal to authority" in aesthetic judgment. WC
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. > Isn't aesthetic engagement possible without any art > appreciation at all ? > > ******************* > > > > "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." > > _____________________________________________________________ > Get help now! Click to find the right drug rehab solution > for you. > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2211/fc/Ioyw6ijmXaa7mhh0lvJcB29r3dDHtg > giqRagexdMgPZvdWDqEHiedG/?count=1234567890
