Art as Experience
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Art as Experience is a 1934 book by American philosopher John Dewey that presents a pragmatist theory of art as an integral, experiential aspect of everyday life rather than a separate aesthetic realm.
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book
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non-fiction book → philosophy book → |
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aesthetic experience arises from the rhythms and tensions of ordinary life
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the museum conception of art isolates artworks from lived experience → |
| author |
John Dewey
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| emphasizesConcept |
art as consummatory experience
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continuity between art and everyday life → experience as interaction between organism and environment → |
| firstPublicationPlace |
New York City
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| genre |
aesthetics
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pragmatist philosophy → |
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aesthetic experience integrates emotion, perception, and action
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art emerges from everyday doing and undergoing → art involves unified, meaningful experience → art is not defined primarily by objects but by experiences → art is rooted in human biological and cultural processes → |
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chapters
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introduction → |
| influenced |
20th-century aesthetics
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art education theory → environmental aesthetics → pragmatist aesthetics → |
| influencedBy |
American pragmatism
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Darwinian evolutionary theory → instrumentalism → naturalism → |
| language |
English
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| mainSubject |
aesthetics
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art → experience → |
| notableFor |
developing a pragmatist theory of art
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influencing later discussions of everyday aesthetics → treating art as continuous with ordinary experience → |
| opposesView |
art as a separate aesthetic realm
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| philosophicalTheme |
critique of dualism between art and life
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role of imagination in experience → social context of art → unity of means and ends in artistic activity → |
| philosophicalTradition |
pragmatism
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art is an integral aspect of everyday experience
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| publicationYear |
1934
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| publisher |
Minton, Balch & Company
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| relatedWork |
Democracy and Education
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Experience and Nature → |
Referenced by (1)
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John Dewey
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