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Dewey for Artists (Paperback)
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John Dewey is known as a pragmatic philosopher and progressive
architect of American educational reform, but some of his most
important contributions came in his thinking about art. Dewey
argued that there is strong social value to be found in art, and it
is artists who often most challenge our preconceived notions. Dewey
for Artists shows us how Dewey advocated for an "art of democracy."
Identifying the audience as co-creator of a work of art by virtue
of their experience, he made space for public participation.
Moreover, he believed that societies only become-and remain-truly
democratic if its citizens embrace democracy itself as a creative
act, and in this he advocated for the social participation of
artists. Throughout the book, Mary Jane Jacob draws on the
experiences of contemporary artists who have modeled Dewey's
principles within their practices. We see how their work springs
from deeply held values. We see, too, how carefully considered
curatorial practice can address the manifold ways in which
aesthetic experience happens and, thus, enable viewers to find
greater meaning and purpose. And it is this potential of art for
self and social realization, Jacob helps us understand, that
further ensures Dewey's legacy-and the culture we live in.
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