i thought this quote from the American philosopher made a lot of sense in the context of our blog:
"...the backbone and indeed the life-blood of my aesthetic theory (such as it is) is that normally complete experience, every one that runs its own full course, is aesthetic in its consummatory phase; and...my theory holds also that the arts and their aesthetic experience are intentionally cultivated developments of this primary phase..."
quoted in Philip Zeltner, John Dewey's Aesthetic Philosophy, Gruner, Amsterdam: 1975.
here i don't think he means that every experience we have is aesthetic, but that every experience has the potential to be aesthetic if it is properly structured or complete, and that fine art is an "intentional cultivation" of this kind of experience.
mw
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mw- i like this. i guess in this sense posting on the blog is the completion of the experience that makes it art. otherwise these things might just be moments in the day and nothing more, nothing less.
ReplyDeletei was thinking that we were documenting such daily aesthetic moments, not that we were making those moments complete/aesthetic by posting them online. but maybe you're right...
ReplyDeletehm...
ReplyDeleteare daily aesthetic moments complete without documentation?
i think we are dealing with the "primary phase"