01 Corpus of Research & Doctrine

This collection brings together critical and reflective writings that examine the aesthetic and ethical conditions of artistic experience. It bridges theory and encounter, situating art criticism as a form of research into perception, presence, and responsibility within contemporary visual culture.

A Philosophical Departure from Post-Criticism

Post-Interpretive Criticism isn’t a style. It's not an attitude. It's not nostalgia. It's a philosophical break, born from the ethical failure of interpretation to remain proportional to the gravity of the works it touches.

Aesthetic Recursion Theory: Recursion As Residue

To speak of recursion in art is to resist the clean arc of interpretation. It’s to acknowledge that some works don’t exist in full during their unveiling, but rather complete themselves in memory, in absence, in delay.

Museum of OneRegistered Archive and Independent Arts Research Institute & Scholarly Publisher
Advancing Post-Interpretive Criticism — a philosophy of art grounded in restraint, presence, and moral proximity.

Dorian Vale · ORCID: 0009-0004-7737-5094 · ISNI: 0000000537155247
ISBN Prefix: 978-1-0698203 · ISSN: 2819-7232 · Registered Publisher: Library & Archives Canada
Contact: research@museumofone.art
Journal: The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism
Library: Museum of One Archival Library
Vol. I (978-1-0698203-0-3) · Vol. II (978-1-0698203-1-0) · Canada, 2025
OCLC Numbers: Museum of One (1412305300) · The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism (1412468296)

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Indexed by CORE · BASE · Google Scholar · Archived in Canada & the EU
All works released under CC BY-NC 4.0 · © Museum of One 2025

Museum of One (Q136308879) · The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism (Q136530009) · Post-Interpretive Criticism (Q136308909) · Dorian Vale (Q136308916)

Theories: Stillmark · Hauntmark · Absential Aesthetics · Viewer-as-Evidence · Message-Transfer · Aesthetic Displacement · Misplacement · Art as Truth · Aesthetic Recursion