Noël Carroll On Art Appreciation - Part 1

In this three-part interview, American philosopher of art Noël Carroll from The Graduate Center, CUNY discusses his thoughts on art appreciation and explains his "art appreciative heuristic," an approach to art appreciation that focuses on the purpose of an artwork, rather than taste.
Questions:
00:09 - How would a person’s life be improved
if they could better appreciate art?
01:54 - Where does one start on their journey
to appreciating or understanding art?
03:50 - Do you see yourself as adding to
or departing from Danto’s ideas?
06:36 - What, to you, is the difference between
taste and aesthetic experience?
10:06 - What is wrong with Dewey’s
conception of aesthetic experience?
11:25 - Is there significance to coming back to an
artwork years later and appreciating it differently?
13:21 - Why do you think George Dickey called
the 18th century the “century of taste?”
16:33 - Why should we disregard the
taste model of art appreciation?
20:23 - What is problematic about
taste-based biases?
21:22 - What is your “art appreciative heuristic”
and why is it better than the taste model?
24:26 - Why is there resistance to throwing
out the taste model of art appreciation?
29:04 - Is it possible that some people are
unable to escape their emotional
reaction to beauty and thus are
unable to approach their analysis
of art in a cognitive manner?