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Art as Experience Paperback - 2005 - 1st Edition
by John Dewey
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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
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Details
- Title Art as Experience
- Author John Dewey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tarcherperigee, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date July 2005
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 408077
- ISBN 9780399531972 / 0399531971
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.14 x 5.26 x 1.01 in (20.68 x 13.36 x 2.57 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Art & Art Instruction
- Library of Congress subjects Aesthetics, Arts - Philosophy
- Dewey Decimal Code 701.17
- Quantity available 1
- Bookseller catalogues Cultural Studies
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Summary
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.
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BY ONE of the ironic perversities that often attend the course of affairs, the existence of the works of art upon which formation of an esthetic theory depends has become an obstruction to theory about them.
