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Dewey — A consummated experience, not merely a museum object

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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