Book description
Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has 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,…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Art As Experience as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is essential to anyone who wants to come into the meaning of art, design, and architecture.
Give it time and it will undoubtedly change your life. Dewey’s central argument is that experience itself is aesthetic, that we need to pay deep attention to the quality inherent in every experience.
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