Criticism comes in several forms according to the document. Legislative criticism judges a performance based on established criteria. Appreciative criticism acts as an intermediary between artist and audience by logically analyzing a work. Interpretative criticism connects a performance to the world by understanding its significance. Cultural criticism views art as social critique rather than critiquing a performance itself.

1. Criticism
from Roger Seamon’s
The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics,
BerysBaut& Dominic Lopes, Eds. (New York:
Routledge, 2001)

2. What is criticism?
• A judgment of a performance

3. Legislative Criticism
• Captures the nature and qualities of the art
work
• Based on established criteria

4. Appreciative Criticism
• Primary form of crit from 18th – 20th centuries
• Critic as “intermediary” between artist and
audience
• Characterized by logical stages

5. Interpretative Criticism
• Helps us connect the performance to the
world
• Tries to understand what the significance of
the performance is

6. Cultural Criticism
• Understanding of works of art as social
critique
• Criticism is no longer about critiquing the
performance