Art as Occupations: Two Neglected Roots of John Dewey's Aesthetics.

Autor: Campeotto, Fabio, Saharrea, Juan Manuel, Viale, Claudio Marcelo
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Zdroj: Pluralist; Summer2023, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p1-25, 25p
Abstrakt: Art and Education, edited by John Dewey at al., Barnes Foundation, 1929, pp. 3-12. 31 Dewey, John. By that time, his poor treatment of aesthetic/art education looks surprising, considering that, in 1937-1938, Dewey was fully involved in Barnes's last project I The Friends of Art and Education i ([81]). Undoubtedly, I art as experience i [2]is one of the most important texts by John Dewey, as well as his most systematic approach to aesthetics.[3] This book usually appears in the literature as an almost mandatory reading for interpreters of classical pragmatism, and it is praised as an ineludible reference for those interested in aesthetics from a pragmatic point of view. Hence, an education grounded in a vision of art detached from society, I art for art's sake i , should not be promoted.[25] This aspect should have had a straightforward curricular articulation within Dewey's philosophy of education, in order to avoid its recurrent association with a narrow scientificism. 12 These ideas are already outlined during the Chicago years ([69]) in Dewey's short article [15] 13 The same question was made by Martin: "[W]ithout Barnes's impetus, Dewey would probably never have written a book on aesthetics. [Extracted from the article]
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