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!!!!1934 __Art As Experience * John Dewey (1859-1952) * ''Original Excerpt :'' « ^[...^] The ear and eye complement one another. The eye gives the "scene" in which things "go on" and on which changes are projected — leaving it still a scene even amid tumult and turmoil. The ear, taking for granted the background furnished by cooperative action of vision and touch, brings home to us changes as changes. For sounds are always effects; effects of the clash, the impact and resistance, of the forces of nature. They express these forces in terms of what they do to one another when they meet; the way they change one another, and change the things that are the theater of their endless conflicts. The lapping of water, the murmur of brooks, the rushing and whistling of wind, the creaking of doors, the rustling of leaves, the swishing and cracking of branches, the thud of fallen objects, the sobs of depression and the shouts of victory — what are these, together with all noises and sounds, but immediate manifestation of changes brought about by the struggle of forces ? Every stir of nature is affected by means of vibrations, but an even uninterrupted vibration makes no sound; there mus be interruption impact and resistance. Music, having sound as its medium, thus necessarily expresses in a concentrated way the shocks and instabilities, the conflicts and resolutions, that are the dramatic changes enacted upon the more enduring background of nature and human life. The tension and the struggle has its gatherings of energy, its discharges, its attacks and defenses, its mighty warrings and its peaceful meetings, its resistances and resolutions, and out of these things music weaves its web. ^[...^] The eye is the sense of distance — not just that light comes from afar, but that through vision we are connected with what is distant and thus forewarned of what is to come. Vision gives the spread-out scene — that "in" and "on" which, as I have said, change takes place. [...] Sound stimulates directly to immediate change because it reports a change. ^[...^] Sound is the conveyor of what impends, of what is happening as an indication of what is likely to happen. It is fraught much more than vision with the sense of issues; about the impending there is always an aura of indeterminateness and uncertainty — all conditions favorable to intense emotional stir. ^[...^] » ''(John Dewey, pp. 245-246)'' * ''Sources :'' {small}J. Dewey. (1934). ''Art as Experience''. Rahway, NJ : The Barnes Foundation Press; New York : Perigee Books, 1980; and also, New York : The Berkeley Publishing Group, Perigee, The Penguin Books, 2005 ; J. Dewey. (1934). ''L'Art comme expérience''. In ‘Oeuvres philosophiques III’, dir. J.-P. Cometti, trad. J.-P Cometti, Ch. Domino, F. Gaspari, C. Mari, N. Murzilli, Cl. Pichevin, J. Piwnica, G. A. Tiberghien, Publications de l’Université de Pau/éd. Farrago, 2005.{/small} {br}{br}
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