Richard Shusterman argued for the value of popular art from the perspective of pragmatic philosophy. He attributed the validity of aesthetic value of popular art to “aesthetic pleasure”, and thus strove to eliminate the theoretical division between “elegance” and “popularity” for different artistic forms. He attempted to prove the reasonable existence of popular art by physical experiences, so that he could build up an integral artistic view. However, Richard Shusterman failed to give an appropriate value judgment of art itself, because he did not touch the real artistic value in the core of popular art as he had focused on criticizing the conventional art criticism for parochialism and conservation. To prove the value of popular art, this essay takes a way to explore the formation mechanism of artistic value at the interior of the art.