«Often by illuminating the context in which the artwork has been produced, the critic is better able to assist the audience in understanding of the work and, in addition, in understanding of the critic's evaluation of it. Roughly speaking, by placing a work in a historical context - whether art historical or a more broadly social one - the critic is able to refine further the nature of the artist's ambition in a manner that suggests the ways in which to estimate his success or failure, at least on his own terms. For example, if the context of the work is described in terms of a problematic to be solved, then an important aspect of the critical evaluation of the artwork will concern whether the problem was solved or, if not solved, whether some advance was made toward a solution.
The contexts of which the critic can avail himself are various. Some are art historical, and some of the art historical ones blend into the kind of categorization explored above. Specifically, the critic may situate the artwork in terms of a tradition with an animating problematic in order to draw a bead on the work's aspiration.»
Noel Carroll, On Criticism
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