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  <default_description>Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, &lt;i&gt;Art as Experience&lt;/i&gt; 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.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Dewey]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 13 12:49:43 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many books on aesthetics treat art as mere grist for philosophy's mill. The results are sometimes thought-provoking, but too often seem tangential to the real-life problems and pleasures of art. &quot;Art as Experience&quot; is different. It is philosophically ambitious, and its ideas do come togeth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9064694">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jun 28 09:36:20 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps this is anachronistic in our current mash-up culture (or maybe it isn't?), but I think writers should do some reading in aesthetic theory. Dewey's book, originally delivered as a series of lectures in 1932, is one I'd recommend, either to argue with or from which to seek inspiration. I first...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2488423">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent book about art, useful and inspiring to both the artist and the viewer. Published in 1934, it's as relevant today as then, or even more so as we're slipping into an age where art in the purest sense of translating a felt human experience is disappearing.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another text that has changed my understanding about art and living. This text helped me to continue to emphasize the importance of the arts and the imagination in school. Dewey clearly demonstrates how art is a natural and important part of life.  ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 02 12:40:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Simply incredible book. Very difficult to explain and requires a close, persistent reading, but it's a life-changer if you get it. Simply a different way to think about yourself and how you interact with the world. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 08 22:58:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an experience. You'll never finish it. It is so full of existential lessons it will amaze you. It is not an easy read though. But nothing in life that is good for you is easy. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Edwin Schlossberg once wrote that good writing &quot;create[s:] a context in which other people can think.” This book has done so for me (so far).]]></body>
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    <review id="39607041">
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    <body><![CDATA[Dewey shows how Art is not a specialized realm, but is rather at play in all ordinary experience.]]></body>
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    <review id="55359771">
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  <date_added>Fri May 08 06:55:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mentioned in Kaprow &quot;Blurring of Art and Life&quot; in intro as substantial influence on him.]]></body>
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    <review id="45560782">
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 06 09:41:27 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in graduate school...want to refresh my memory.]]></body>
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    <review id="67052172">
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    <body><![CDATA[Dewey's densest, and least appealing book. Which is too bad, since the topic is really interesting!]]></body>
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    <review id="651435">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[all artists, philosophers, lovers of life]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Apr 09 15:26:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 09 15:34:38 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am still in the progress of reading this book.  My first experience with Dewey was a couple small quotes in a book about Arte Povera.  Then I read a few passages from this book when it happened to be included in the textbook for my Aesthetics class in college.  It has partially inspired artworks o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/651435">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17279598">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought it was an insightful book, but realize I will have to read it many times before catching all that might speak to me.  I may have had too high of expectations.  At times it became rather dry and difficult to keep my enthusiasm up.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My college paintings advisor recommended this book during my junior year--the recommendation paralleled the beginning of my interest in art education.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="32970055">
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 05 12:31:31 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Mountain peaks do not float unsupported; they do not even just rest upon the surface.  The ARE the earth in one of its manifest operations.&quot;<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="33560250">
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    <body><![CDATA[Best book on aesthetics ever.<br/>It is what it is.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="21110409">
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    <body><![CDATA[Profound and sensible.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="6419316">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i heart john dewey.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A must!]]></body>
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