Art is experience

Author: Dewey Gao Jianping (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: "The materials of art should draw nourishment from all kinds of sources, and the products of art should be accepted by all people." He proposed a utopia: transforming art from the beauty parlor of civilization into civilization itself. He confidently believed in the prosperity of art, arguing that "the prosperity of art is a cultural and post-scale nature," art would merge with morality, and home and imagination would play important roles in this process. All these contents indicate that if Dewey had not written this aesthetic work, his entire philosophical system would have been incomplete. After writing this book, the goals achieved by his entire theoretical efforts became clear, from transforming philosophy and education to transforming society and people. The author is a renowned American philosopher and educator, one of the founders of pragmatism. This book is one of the representative works of the author's aesthetic theory and is regarded by many modern scholars as a classic work of aesthetics in the 20th century. The book primarily elaborates on the continuity between art as an experience and ordinary experience, specifically the "daily life" from which it originates. This aesthetic thought presents new innovations compared to previous thinkers and continues to have a profound impact today.