Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism: The Limits of Self-Generation, edited by by Gary Huafan He and Skender Luarasi, includes a chapter by Michael Surry Schlabs, "Songs of Art as Experience: John Dewey's Vegetable Eye":
In 1934’s Art as Experience, John Dewey sketched the outlines of a new approach to aesthetics, an approach, he suggested, that was finally consistent with a truly modern understanding of the world, now made clear in light of the previous century’s radical discoveries in industry, technology, and science, especially those of Charles Darwin. The term experience, around which Dewey had constructed his broad-based and multivalent critique of modernity, was a notion conceived in terms of interaction and intercourse, continuity and contingency, organic growth and engaged undergoing. Deweyan experience, in short, is an open-ended process of becoming. Among his possessions is a small collection of postcards purchased from the National Gallery in London, featuring visual work by the poet and artist William Blake. These Blake postcards are important for their potential to illuminate Dewey's contribution to aesthetics.
Michael Surry Schlabs is Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale School of Architecture.
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