Explication of Diversity of Contemporary Artistic Forms based on John Dewey's Aesthetic Experience of Appearance
Subject Areas : Philosophy
Keywords: John Dewey, Aesthetic Experience, Aesthetic Emotion, imagination, Form, Meaning,
Abstract :
One of the points of strength of the approach of Dewey to art lies in the fact that he has a dynamic vision of the nature of art. The current essay seeks to provide an appropriate answer regarding the question of the diversity of forms of artistic forms in contemporary era based on the explication of creation of work of art focusing on the notion of aesthetic experience in the ideas of John Dewey. The nature of art it has a better capability as regards the explication of the diversity and evolutions of the forms of artistic expression in the contemporary era. What makes the meaning of the works with this extension understandable for the audience is the artist's taking advantage of the historical and cultural element called emotion. By changing the primary crude emotion into a refined emotion the artist takes advantage of the symbolic and meaningful systems and invites the audience to experience the life world. The work of art is an extra-real object in the world. In aesthetic experience selection and taking advantage of the past meanings and symbols enriches the form. Form unites the emotion, act of expression, media, and system of symbols, knowledge and interaction. Degrees of collection and connectivity of these factors and also communicative and contextual factors that constitute a spectrum of the forms and it is in this way that the form of work of art in the contemporary world goes beyond its material form
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