Sincerity in the Work of Art

Bethany N. Henning

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Pages:: 325–335

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004438064_020

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Dewey’s Art as Experience theorizes that the power of an aesthetic experience is the result of an interpenetration of doing and undergoing that is composed into a unity by the singular quality of the experience. Quality does a lot of important work for the Deweyan conception of aesthetic experience, most significantly, it ensures that the product of art is sincere. Sincerity is explored as a primary requirement of Dewey’s theory of aesthetic experience. Particular attention is paid to the way in which such sincerity must be shared between the artist and the audience in completing the work of art. The reader will be invited to listen to examples from two distinctive pieces of music; we will undertake an analysis of a song written in the lyric tradition by Joni Mitchell, and a song that was composed for the express purpose of selling a product. These two examples are paradigmatic of the Deweyan distinction between artistic expression and statement art. As we explore of Dewey’s concepts of immediacy, quality, and the interpenetration of the active and passive elements of an interaction, we will have a useful opportunity to question the pragmatic consequences of sincerity in the product and the work of art.

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Imagining Dewey

Artful Works and Dialogue about Art as Experience

Series: Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education, Volume: 8

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004438064

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 27 Oct 2020

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Front Matter

Foreword

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Art Is/Is Not Experience

Chapter 1 Art as Experience, Experience as Art

Chapter 2 Travels through China in the Dewey and Barnes Letters

Chapter 3 Art Is (Not) Experience

Part 2 Performance & Happenings

Chapter 4 The Aesthetics of Rehearsal

Chapter 5 Building Experience

Chapter 6 Collapsing Life and Art

Chapter 7 The Artworks of Women

Part 3 Encounters & Relationships

Chapter 8 Dewey’s Art as Experience

Chapter 9 Images of Injustice

Chapter 10 Illumination

Part 4 Dissonance & Reflection

Chapter 11 Experiencing Art and Social Science

Chapter 12 Aesthetic Experiences and Dewey’s Descendants

Chapter 13 “Art Is More Moral than Moralities”

Chapter 14 Father Catich and the Clean-Cut Christs

Part 5 Time, Space, & Nature

Chapter 15 Eco-Aesthetic Experiences

Chapter 16 Temporality and Spatiality in Artwork

Chapter 17 Articulation from an Aesthetic Environment

Chapter 18 Aesthetic Experiences of Making with Paper

Part 6 Transformation & the Work of Art

Chapter 19 Sincerity in the Work of Art

Chapter 20 Practicing the New School

Chapter 21 Arts Based Educational Research and Social Transformation

Chapter 22 Imagination, Inquiry, and Voice

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