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The role of criticism but is it fulfilled? Critics have approached the arts in a variety of ways, some more useful than others. At the simplest level, we often get a description of the work itself for those who have not experienced it, combined with the critic's personal, subjective response to it and maybe to various elements in its makeup, production or presentation [ e.g. the abilities of various members of a film's cast, the technique used by a painter in wielding his brushes etc]. However it's the highest, and arguably most complex, level of criticism that is also the rarest, and, equ...
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