(Originally Written January 7, 2008 in the Journal)
"Art as Experience"
By: John Dewey
"Experience occurs continuously".
An experience occurs when it has run its course. Experience always happens, but an experience has a beginning and a consummation.
When we have an experience we experience a continual flow of parts. Each part blends to make a whole, yet each is distinct in spite of a continuous whole.
An experience has unity.
It has a movement, a beginning, anticipation, and conclusion. Each are fluid parts of the whole.
An experience has its own aesthetic quality.
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