Art as Experience Paperback by John Dewey

Product Details

• Publisher: Tarcher (2005-07-05)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 384 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780399531972
• Item Weight: 306.18 grams
• Dimensions: 7.98 x 5.2 x 0.92 cm

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.

About the Author

John Dewey (1859-1952), philosopher, psychologist, and educator, is widely credited as the most influential thinker on education in the twentieth century. He taught philosophy at University of Michigan, Chicago University, and Columbia University.