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Page 1: Art as Experience Dewey - o.b5z.neto.b5z.net/i/u/2167316/f/Art_as_Experience_Dewey.pdfHaving an experience is an activity with aesthetic quality. ~ John Dewey Inception Development

DoingMaking

Doing, Making

Undergoing, Receptive

Experiential Progress

Non-Aesthetic:

Excess doing

Mechanical,Hundrum,Drudgery,Routine.

Non-aesthetic:

Excess Undergoing

Loose, Caprice,Whimsy, Drifting

Impulsive.

Having an experience is an activity with aesthetic quality.~ John Dewey

Inception Development

Consummation

Continual activity of doing & under-going

Doing gives variety & movement

Undergoingsupplies

unity

Transaction: man/environment

1. Consider its own inception and movement toward its close.2. “integrated within, demarcated from others”: The “within” is a single, unique, and underlying quality.3. Relation of parts to the whole.4. Its “close”is a consummation but not a cessation: we are in process of completing at every stage & retain and sum up what has gone before. 5. Importance of certain “balance” between doing and undergoing for aesthetic qualities (pg. 45).

Balance