El filósofo argentino Luis Juan Guerrero, quien estudió matemáticas yciencias naturales en las Universidades de Pennsylvania y Michigan entre1915 y 1918, se formó en Alemania y hoy es considerado un ‘miembrodesgajado’ de la escuela de Frankfurt. Aquí presentamos su teoría expuestaen el Congreso Nacional de Filosofía en Cuyo, en 1949, simiente de suaporte a la estética de la recepción. CRITICAL THEORY AND ART, A READING FROM THE OPERATIVE AESTHETICS OF THE RECEPTIONABSTRACTThe Argentinean philosopher Luis Juan Guerrero, who studied mathematicsand natural sciences at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Michiganbetween 1915 and 1918, was trained in Germany and today is considereda ‘broken member’ of the Frankfurt School. Here we present his theoryexposed in the National Congress of Philosophy in Cuyo in 1949, seed of hiscontribution to the aesthetics of reception.Keywords: critical theory, aesthetics of reception, self-transformation ofman through art