John Dewey
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Ursula Niklas-Peterson
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Richard Shusterman
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John Dewey
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In short, art, in its form, unites the very same relation of doing and undergoing, outgoing and incoming energy, that makes an experience to be an experience. Because of elimination of all that does not contribute to mutual organization of the factors of both action and reception into one another, and because of selection of just the aspects and traits that contribute to their interpenetration of each other, the product is a work of art. – John Dewey, Art as Experience, 1934, p. 566
My hermeneutical approach focuses on philosophical issues which emerge in the experience of art. It goes from art to philosophy and takes the work of art as a starting point, a doorway to philosophical questions and concepts whose significance reaches beyond the questions of art and beauty. – Niklas, Art & Academe, 1994, p. 2 …
Shusterman advocates a definition of art as experience he has adopted from Dewey, albeit not without making some important corrections to it. While Shusterman accepts the majority of the elements central to the Dewey’s conception of this experience (e.g., that it cannot be reduced to the private mental world of the subject being rather an …
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