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. |
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User Review - Paul_S - LibraryThingBecause this book is so far out of my comfort zone I gave it all the benefit of the doubt I could muster. I don't even disagree with most of it, it's just the author doesn't say all that much. A lot ... Read full review
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This book is a must for all serious artists and art collectors. Art as Experience
deepened my perspective on art which helped me solidify my own.
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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Bibliographic information
| Title | Art as Experience Perigee Books |
| Author | John Dewey |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0399531971, 9780399531972 |
| Length | 384 pages |
| Subjects | › Art / Criticism & Theory Philosophy / Aesthetics Philosophy / Criticism |
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