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, painting, music, and literature.
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, painting, music, and literature.
1The live creature12The live creature and "etheral things"203Having an experience364The act of expression605The expressive object856Substance and form1107The natural history of form1398The organization of energies1689The common substance of the arts19410The varied substance of the arts22211The human contribution25512The challenge to philosophy28313Criticism and perception31014Art and civilization339