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
The Live Creature | 1 |
The Live Creature and Etherial Things | 20 |
Having an Experience | 36 |
The Act of Expression | 60 |
The Expressive Object | 85 |
Substance and Form | 110 |
The Natural History of Form | 139 |
The Organization of Energies | 168 |
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action activity architecture Aristotle artist beauty becomes belongs building Byzantine art Cézanne color common compartmentalized psychology complete conception connection consciousness constitute criticism defined definite direct distinction drama effect elements emotion ence energy environment ergies Esthetic Education esthetic experience esthetic quality esthetic theory existence external fact factors feeling forces fulfillment human idea imagination immediate impressionist impulsion individual integral intellectual intense interaction intrinsic judgment lines live creature manifestation marks matter Matthew Arnold means medium ment merely mind mode moral movement nature operates organism painter painting Parthenon particular perceived perception perience phase philosophic physical picture Plato poem poetry Preface to Morals present purpose relations result rhythm rience scene sculpture sense sensuous separation significant spect subject-matter substance term of disparagement thetic things thought Tintoretto tion Titian tradition ture undergoing unity values vision whole words