RHETOR 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: John Dewey, Outsider Art, Henry Darger
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In the pragmatism school of philosophical thought theory of art go beyond the individual. Living is a process: part of it is responding to needs. Sense organs you use to make art are not just yours. Sense organs/ biology are a kind of art. Many of our activities in our daily lives have artistic quality. Analyze elements of experience (defined as vital, everyday experience) and build. Many people feel disconnected from art (cid:498)importation(cid:499) (cid:498)foreign(cid:499) (cid:498)alien(cid:499) (cid:498)nature of experience is determined by the essential conditions of life(cid:499) Evolution: (cid:498)grace of struggles and achievements of a long line of animal ancestry(cid:499) (cid:498)conquest(cid:499) allows a living being to adjust it to the environments more reactive or. Critique of self sufficiency on order to live you need to exchange with the. The world is very ordered but doesn"t mean each order is good. Activity over passivity: (cid:498)adaptation through expansion (instead of passive. You attain a higher ranking through environment problem and tension changes.
