ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to move a distance toward establishing that sense and force of artistically relevant controversy which the controversy manifestly possesses. It presents what follows attempt to respond to the reference, claims, and reasons question by considering the normal version schema in the light of the "neutral" description of artistically relevant controversy. A critic of the arts is a man who takes exception in a controversy about the arts in which it makes sense to take exception. Unless a controversy exhibits certain concerns, a certain kind and use of discourse, and an orientation in a certain kind of human history, it is not artistically relevant. Having reduced the danger of confusing the artistically relevant controversy with something that resembles it and perhaps even goes by the same name but lacks its differentiating characteristics, it is time to say in what sense the controversy interests us.
