Editing John Dewey (section)

==== Aesthetics ====
{{Main|Art as Experience}}
''Art as Experience'' (1934) is Dewey's major writing on aesthetics.<ref>Jonathan Levin, "The Esthetics of Pragmatism." ''American Literary History'' 6.4 (1994): 658–683 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/489959 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309024921/https://www.jstor.org/stable/489959 |date=March 9, 2021 }}.</ref>

It is, in accordance with his place in the Pragmatist tradition that emphasizes community, a study of the individual art object as embedded in (and inextricable from) the experiences of a local culture. In the original illustrated edition, Dewey drew on the modern art and world cultures collection assembled by [[Albert C. Barnes]] at the [[Barnes Foundation]], whose own ideas on the application of art to one's way of life was influenced by Dewey's writing. Dewey made art through writing poetry, but he considered himself deeply unmusical: one of his students described Dewey as "allergic to music."<ref>* Thibeault, M.D. (2018). [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022429419896792#articleShareContainer Dewey's Musical Allergy and the Philosophy of Music Education] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200609042708/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022429419896792#articleShareContainer |date=June 9, 2020 }}. Journal of Research in Music Education, 68(1), 31–52. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022429419896792</ref> Barnes was particularly influenced by ''Democracy and Education'' (1916) and then attended Dewey's seminar on political philosophy at Columbia University in the fall semester of 1918.<ref>David A. Granger, "The science of art: aesthetic formalism in John Dewey and Albert Barnes, Part 1." ''Journal of Aesthetic Education'' 52.1 (2018): 55–83 [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?output=instlink&q=info:Dgt9UaeudGUJ:scholar.google.com/&hl=en&as_sdt=1,27&scillfp=10194638935152769212&oi=lle online]{{Dead link|date=October 2022|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}.</ref>