Armando, I mentioned the unintentional errors and the artist choosing to
publish them or leave them in. The "likeminded or not" assumption leads to
extreme subjectivism, only liking the artists with whom you are already
instantaneously likeminded, without making an effort to understand what
they're up to and why. It's the polar opposite of how I experience
artworks, and the very reason I started to think about this stuff in the
first place.

Cheerskep, one more thing - what if, to correct my terminology, we say that
there are two types of aesthetic pleasure: sensual and artistic? Sensual
pleasure may be derived from anything, including the material qualities of
artworks (colours, sounds, etc.). Artistic pleasure is derived from the
intentions and choices of the artist and all that stuff I've been babbling
about. Or does the whole idea of differentiating these two seem ungrounded
in experience? (I think the drama on the sporting field is very much
artistic pleasure, I mean we can easily conceive of sports as a type of
theatre)

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