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DEWEY, JOHN

1859–1952

Art as Experience (The Gift to the Commons)

Dewey: art is not the object on the wall but the consummatory experience in the viewer. CoCA's Gift to the Commons (§2.3.5) follows: the keeping of records is not for the artist (the inventory) but for the visitor (the experiencer). The GAI exists for the reader. The applicant donates. The reader receives. Dewey would call this democracy. We call it operations.

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