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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editors’ Introduction
- ON-LINE/ OFF-LINE
- Literate Existence in the Digital Space. Contemporary Traces of Identity
- Text, Writing, School in Anthropological Perspective
- The Practice of Writing Fan Fiction: A Fan Fiction Writer's Tutorial
- I Write. You Write. They Write. The Literary Works of Fandom as a Factor in Integrating the Community
- Approaches Towards Shame in Contemporary Polish Literature
- People You May Know: Homosexual Men's Identity in the Time of Social Networking Services
- Contemporary Polish Essays: In Search of the Aura of Paintings and Photographs
- The Hybrid Work of Art as Experience
- Reincarnations of the Word: Media, Genres, Practices
- LITERATURE AND CONVERGENCE
The Hybrid Work of Art as Experience
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editors’ Introduction
- ON-LINE/ OFF-LINE
- Literate Existence in the Digital Space. Contemporary Traces of Identity
- Text, Writing, School in Anthropological Perspective
- The Practice of Writing Fan Fiction: A Fan Fiction Writer's Tutorial
- I Write. You Write. They Write. The Literary Works of Fandom as a Factor in Integrating the Community
- Approaches Towards Shame in Contemporary Polish Literature
- People You May Know: Homosexual Men's Identity in the Time of Social Networking Services
- Contemporary Polish Essays: In Search of the Aura of Paintings and Photographs
- The Hybrid Work of Art as Experience
- Reincarnations of the Word: Media, Genres, Practices
- LITERATURE AND CONVERGENCE
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Abstract
This article focuses on the hybrid work of art viewed as a form of experience. The issue taken into consideration is hybrid work of art viewed as a form of experience from the perspective of how Dewey wrote about art which can be perceived as a form of experience. How can we understand the notion of experience in relation to a work of art, and, more importantly, to a hybrid work of art? The analysis of the experience category is based on the philosophical texts written by Luigi Pareyson. The question explored is whether hybrid works of art portray the experience of contemporary reality. The poems of Paula Claire (ES-SENSE and Hymns to Isis) and the artistic book by Jim Butler (A.M.D.G) are taken into consideration.
Key words: hybrid work of art, experience, Luigi Pareyson, contemporary reality
The reference in the title of the following article to John Dewey's work entitled Art as Experience is naturally not accidental. The question being explored is concerned with what type of thought about art was suggest-ed by Dewey. He opposed the divisions according to which the aesthetic sphere is divided from the sphere of cognition or morality. We could even say that he hoped, similarly to the Avant-garde representatives, that the world can be filled up with the salutary power of art. The philosopher claimed that every cognitive experience has its own aesthetic component, and contrary to Kant's postulations, we should acknowledge that even morality is not deprived of aesthetic aspects. Dewey emphasized that: “(…) any practical activity, provided that it is integrated and moves by its own urge to fulfillment, have esthetic quality” (Dewey 2005: 41). Dewey regarded the aesthetic experience to be a complete experience which can-not be described in purely psychological terms from the perspective of the evaluating subject. The philosopher found that the real object, which serves as basis for the experience is equally important. Dewey believed that different things can evoke such reactions. However, he emphasized that the modern world is not favorable if we want to experience reality deeply. As Dewey said:
Zeal for doing, lust for action, leaves many a person, especially in this hurried and impatient human environment in which we live, with experience of an almost incredible paucity, all on the surface. No one experience has a chance to complete itself because something else is entered upon so speedily.
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- On-line/Off-lineBetween Text and Experience: Writing as a Lifestyle, pp. 133 - 150Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2016