This text challenges the “museum” conception of its first title subject matter, citing many Asian and African artifacts as aesthetic objects that also served instrumental functions. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this work on aesthetics, originally delivered as a Harvard lecture. This book argues for a continuity between aesthetics and everyday life, claiming that the building Tintern Abbey expresses itself in the poem.
ANSWER: Art as Experience
[10e] Art as Experience is the major work on aesthetics by this American pragmatist philosopher, the author of Democracy and Education.
ANSWER: John Dewey
[10h] Another experiential theory of art is offered by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose works on aesthetics include “Cezanne’s Doubt” and this phenomenological essay, which claims that painters “lend [their] body to the world.”
ANSWER: “Eye and Mind” [or “L’Oeil et l’Esprit]
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