A significant development of Euro-American literary criticism in the 20 th century is its progress regarding the issue of "art production," which, by including into it the practice of literary reading and literary criticism, breaks through the previous theoretical assumption that "art production" is limited to literary creation. Classic critics such as Albert Thibaudet, T.S. Eliot, Ivor Armstrong Richards, and Northrop Frye have, through practical experiences of literary criticism, discovered and confirmed the production of literary criticism. They have not only embarked on verifying such production through scientific experiments, but also conceptualized the ways in which productional criticism can be conducted through conceptualization. The endeavors of classic literary critics have become the embryo of productional literary criticism, with their focus on Marx’s theory of "art production" being the highlight in its development and maturation.