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Art as Experience

by John Dewey · 1934

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Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experiencehas 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.

Subject
philosophyeducationliterary criticismhistorypolitics
Themes
artcreativitymusicphilosophyteachers
Setting
college
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 384 pages
Form
essayspoetry

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