John Dewey, Albert Barnes, and the Continuity of Art and Life: Revisioning the Arts and Education

ISBN-13: 9781433189258 / Angielski

David A. Granger

Opis

John Dewey, Albert Barnes, and the Continuity of Art and Life is a carefully-researched book offering a dynamic and expansive Deweyan vision for the arts and education by examining the influence of Barnes on Dewey.

Recenzje

"One of the most vexing characters on the American art scene was Albert Barnes: the self-styled, passionate collector whose good intentions to educate the masses ran amuck with a museum that, like his art theories, proved too rigid to be realistic. Thus, his friendship with John Dewey whose wide application of art to life has been puzzling-until now. With Granger, we see that Barnes' lessons in how to look, while frozen in a formal analysis of modern French art, nonetheless unleashed in the philosopher an expansive way to think about the aesthetic. As demonstrated here, Dewey's dynamic, embodied understanding inspired the evolution of radical art throughout the 20th century, providing insight into making and being in the world still." -Mary Jane Jacob, Professor and Director of the Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Author of Dewey for Artists

Spis treści

Credit Lines - Acknowledgments - Prologue - Introduction: John Dewey and Albert Barnes: The Fruits of an Unlikely Friendship - Dewey, Barnes, and Aesthetic Formalism - Dewey, Barnes, and the Sociocultural Dimension of the Arts - The Continuity of Art and Life: Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock - The Continuity of Art and Life: From Black Mountain College to "Happenings" and Beyond - Conclusion: Revisioning the Arts and Education - Index.

O autorze

David A. Granger holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education from the University of Chicago. He is currently Professor of Education at SUNY Geneseo. Granger is the author of John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living: Revisioning Aesthetic Education, and has published many articles on Dewey in journals in philosophy, education, and the arts. Granger also served as editor of the John Dewey Society journal Education & Culture from 2010 to 2020.