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[tigriswolf]

So I’m reading Dewey’s Art as Experience. Dewey says, “A work of art no matter how old and classic is actually, not just potentially, a work of art only when it lives in some individualized experience.”

Query: is art art if no one is there to appreciate it?

Query: does art lose some of its artness when the context of its original creation is gone?
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Comments

[classics_lover]

Oh, my, I have so many arguments about this in my head after my Art History MA degree :D

[tigriswolf]

Please do!

I liked Dewey a lot more in School&Society and Child&Curriculum. I just... I know most of it is probably how much has changed since he wrote.

[noybusiness]

I would say no, because empty surroundings or flora/fauna can't appreciate art, and no, because you don't need the context for it to strike something in your imagination. How many of us know what the artist was thinking, anyway?

[tigriswolf]

:)