- Direct pleasure - valued as a source of immediate experience
- Skill and Virtuosity - demonstrates specialized skills
- Style - made according to rules of form, composition and expression (while usually allowing or celebrating departures)
- Novelty or Creativity - Valued and praised for originality. Kitsch and craft use the style in an uncreative way.
- Criticism - artistic forms exist with parallel discourses of appreciation and judgement.
- Representation - In wildly varying degrees of naturalism, art objects represent real or imaginary experiences of the world.
- Special focus - art is bracketed off from ordinary life, "made special" by location, time,appurtenance, rituals, e.g. art gallery, opening, picture frame.
- Expressive individuality - potential to express individual personality through the work.
- Emotional saturation - not only the emotion of the content but the emotional tone of the work or performance.
- Intellectual challenge - utilize the combined variety of perceptual and intellectual capacities at a high level.
- Art traditions and institutions - works of art gain value from positions in the history of their traditions.
- Imaginative experience - (most importantly) artworks provide an imaginative experience for their makers and their audience.
from Denis Dutton's The Art Instinct
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