How Do You Know It's Good? By Marya Mann

In the essay "How Do You Know It's Good?" by Marya Mannes, she explains how the individuals judgement is the key to appreciating art. How you see the piece of art is how you should determine if it is good or bad. Not how the critics judge it. The essay focuses on how society is getting tricked by the critics for: "mastering the art of saying nothing with exquisite complexity". As someone that does not know a lot about art can get misled into thinking a certain piece is good when it is not. Her idea of fixing this is to get the public more involved with the artists. If the public has higher expectations, the better the performance the artists will