Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature. Preface
vii
1 The Live Creature
1(19)
2 The Live Creature and Etherial Things
20(16)
3 Having an Experience
36(24)
4 The Act of Expression
60(25)
5 The Expressive Object
85(25)
6 Substance and Form
110(29)
7 The Natural History of Form
139(29)
8 The Organization of Energies
168(26)
9 The Common Substance of the Arts
194(28)
10 The Varied Substance of the Arts
222(33)
11 The Human Contribution
255(28)
12 The Challenge to Philosophy
283(27)
13 Criticism and Perception
310(29)
14 Art and Civilization
339(26)
Index
365
