Looking back on my previous posts, I realized that I didn't respond to anything about Dewey's text in the textbook. I know this is a bit late, but I'm just trying to catch up on the blog posts that I missed.
Dewey’s view of the relations between art and nature is that art imitates nature and is “"prefigured in the very processes of living," according to the text. However, we are not conscious of this relationship between art and nature because of how natural it is to us. The raw art of the natural world could almost be considered an outline, according to Dewey, and a model for the artistic intentions of mankind; because it is ingrained in our being, this natural inclination for art, we are not fully conscious of it and, instead, attach a conscious intent to creating art to substitute for that which is not. As Dewey writes in the text, "Art is the living and concrete proof that man is capable of restoring consciously, and thus on the plane of meaning, the union of sense, need, impulse and action characteristic of the live creature." In other words, this means that art itself is the evidence that mankind naturally imitates the world of animal life because of our innate connection to the natural world. Furthermore, our cognitive intervention of consciousness regulates our artistic inclinations and varies the art we create in an infinite number of ways. If it wasn’t for this intervention, however, the idea of art would cease to exist, and the intellectual movement that is known as art would not have been achieved in the history of humanity.
My question is, "If our inclination for artistic endeavors can be traced back to animal life, then how did we evolve as a society artistically? Was it our interpretation of art that made it so modern?"
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