Art as Experience, Experience as Art

LIVIO MATTAROLLO; MARÍA CRISTINA DI GREGORI; LEOPOLDO RUEDA

Imagining Dewey: Artful Works and Dialogue about Art as Experience

Brill-Sense Publishing

Lugar: Leiden; Año: 2020;

Regarding Dewey`s aim in Art asExperience and the complexities of his proposal, we would like to provide aclarifying reading about the different senses in which Dewey uses the word?art? and how they are related to different aspects of his philosophical account of experience. The interpretative hypothesis we would like to exploreis that the word ´art´ in Dewey bears at least two meanings: a broad one,related to the practical and transformative dimension of action, and aderivative and narrow one, useful to refer to Fine Arts or artistic activities,as we prefer to name them. In order to accomplish the goal of this chapter, wewill firstly analyse the Deweyan notion of experience so as to emphasize itspractical and transactional character as well as the distinction he introducesbetween consummated and not consummated experiences. Secondly, we willhighlight the continuities presented by Dewey between experience and artisticpractices, considering that the latter focus on the qualitative dimension ofexperience. To conclude, we will attempt to shed some light on Dewey´s uses ofthe term "art" to point out why experience is art in the sense of practice andart is experience in the sense of being rooted in the conditions of ordinarylife, taking into account that viewing art as experience and viceversa allowsfor a better understanding of his stance on the notion of experience as well ashis theory of fine arts or artistic activities.Publicación programada: 22.10.2020