ABSTRACT

In examining each of these four procedures in detail, we want to become especially aware of how they collectively contribute to the overall tasks of criticism, as criticism was defined back in Chapter 1:

To completely understand intrinsic appreciation’s focus, it may be necessary to view what is said in Chapter 12 about art as a vehicle for igniting pleasure experiences. Intrinsic appreciation entails the compiling of an inventory of all the perceiver enjoyments that the work might generate. As astute media professionals, we need to become fully aware of our project’s materials, how they are organized, and their resulting expressive capabilities. One of many ways to accomplish this is to apply Chapter 13’s Logic of Aesthetic Form as a detector of realized beauty.