Administered aesthetic methods are immanently artistic, not externally imposed

Evidence

At the same time, the applied methods of procedures are not arbitrarily thought out - and this is what gives the phenomenon its weight - but rather developed with an immanently artistic consequence. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 168

Categorization

Category: Craft and Method

• DEFINE: Critical distinction: the standardization follows art’s own internal logic (integral construction), which is what makes charge of ‘pseudo-individuation’ hard to dismiss as mere imposition.