LSAT-99-06-1-24

We ought to pay attention only to the intrinsic properties of a work of art. Its other, extrinsic properties are irrelevant to our aesthetic interactions with it. For example, when we look at a painting we should consider only what is directly presented in our experience of it what is really aesthetically relevant, therefore, is not what a painting symbolizes, but what it directly presents to experience.

The conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is added to the premises?

A. What an artwork symbolizes involves only extrinsic properties of that work.

B. There are certain properties of our experience of artworks that cna be distinguished as symbolic properties.

C. Only an artwork's intrinsic properties are relevant to our aesthetic interactions with it.

D. It is possible in theory for an artwork to symbolize nothing

E. An intrinsic property of an artwork is one that relates the work to itself