Art as Experience

Abstract

Discerning from the beginning to its end, Art as Experience is still one of the most comprehensive thesis for art educators and policy makers alike. Testing, questioning, and tough, it examines what embodies a thriving and healthy society, and argues that art education is essential to such conditions. Dewey claims correctly that art education can never be a literal experience, a leveller, a rule, a matter of reason alone or a moral function and cannot be governed by charts, bureaucracy, conventionality, and statistics. For education this has major consequences about how art should be taught. Dewey is adamant: art is in the lead in what constitutes new vision. To be able to pluck the benefits of this art for our social system of education, Dewey maintains, as this chapter will explore, that art teaching must revolve around what Art as Experience evokes in its nature.

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