Art as ExperienceBased on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature. |
Contents
Having an Experience | |
The Act of Expression | |
The Expressive Object | |
Substance and Form | |
The Natural History of Form | |
The Organization of Energies | |
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act of expression action activity architecture Aristotle artist beauty becomes belongs building Byzantine art Cézanne character color common compartmentalized psychology complete conception connection consciousness constitute criticism defined definite direct distinction drama dualism effect elements emotion energy environment esthetic education esthetic experience esthetic quality esthetic theory existence experienced external fact factors feeling forces fulfillment Henri Matisse human idea imagination immediate impressionist impulsion individual integral intellectual intense interaction intrinsic isolated judgment lines literature live creature manifestation matter Matthew Arnold means medium merely mind mode moral movement nature operates organism painter painting Parthenon particular perceived phase philosophic physical picture Plato poem poetry Preface to Morals present purpose reënforcement reflection relations result rhythm scene sculpture sense sensuous separation significant subject-matter substance term of disparagement things thought Tintoretto Titian tradition transformation undergoing unity values vision whole words