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What is Art?
03.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

There is a semi-interesting discussion group on artreview.com called What is Art? Whenever I am logged into artreview.com, I watch as people are almost constantly chiming on this topic. The question itself seems absurd to me, but then I tend to be rather cynical when it comes to the use of the term. […]
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Art as Experience
02.28.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I’d like to open up a discussion on John Dewey’s Art as Experience.
To begin I’ll open with a quotation from page 1:
When an art product once attains classic status, it somehow becomes isolated from the human conditions under which it was brought into being and from the human consequences it engenders in actual life-experience.

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