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John Dewey

1934

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Can cooking, making, or moving become art when an ordinary activity gains tension and consummation?

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Story 1Why does art matter, and what makes a work valuable?

Dewey — A consummated experience, not merely a museum object

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Can cooking, making, or moving become art when an ordinary activity gains tension and consummation?

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    Dewey criticizes the ‘museum conception’ that isolates art objects from the conditions and rhythms of ordinary experience.

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    • Dewey's Aesthetics

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §1.1 The Museum Conception of Art

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    For Dewey, aesthetic experience is not passive spectatorship but an organized transaction with an environment that becomes one consummated experience.

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    • Dewey's Aesthetics

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2 Experience and §4 Having an Experience

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  1. 1934

    Published in New York, Art as Experience returns art to the rhythms of living.

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