As its title suggests, this article is an introduction to Ver y estimar. Cuadernos de crítica artística. The text explains that these notebooks were created “so that a group of scholars might fill their pages . . . with the results of the application of an assimilated method rather than the undeveloped product of received learning.” It also stresses that criticism “should draw inspiration from its own basic theories” beyond the “sensible reactions and the play of the imagination,” so that “judgment should not be overwhelmed by a chaotic torrent of images.” On the other hand, it explains that the determinisms, the unleashing factors, will be taken into account just as much as the “creative freedom of man,” insisting, in this sense, on the impossibility of “reducing the creative act to a mechanical game of exogenous factors or the inventive omnipotence of the artist.” Finally, the Buenos Aires publication states that, “the theory, the history, and the aesthetic of art are forms of criticism, whose role is to assess values.”