In my view, Dewey's core notion that art is most valuable as an agent of heightened experience, that it is best appreciated as experience, undercuts all forms of critical investigation -- moral criticism, political criticism, cultural criticism, etc. -- at least to the extent that such approaches assume that "subject-matter" is easily detached from "perceptual experience." ❋ Unknown (2010)
There is a profound distinction between the vehicle of a work of art, the intellectual carrier through which an artist receives his subject-matter and transmits it to his immediate audience, and both the form and matter of his work. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Particularly the one about spotlighting an African-American audience and changes in subject-matter. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This last sentence would seem to suggest that Dewey believes there is something called "subject-matter" that exists apart from the formal qualities of art and that can properly be the point of the reader's "perception." ❋ Unknown (2010)
ConvergeUS intends to organize annual summits to bring together technologists, social entrepreneurs and subject-matter experts to explore the potential of technology to help societal needs in areas such as early childhood education, healthcare and military families. ❋ Thomas Kalil (2011)
Carried to its logical conclusion, it would exclude from esthetic perception most of the subject-matter that is enjoyed in the case of architectural structures, the drama, and the novel, with all their attendent reverberations. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Barnett Newman said “Most people think of subject-matter as what Meyer Shapiro has called ‘object-matter.’” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Later in this chapter, Dewey writes that "Since a work of art is the subject-matter of experiences heightened and intensified, the purpose that determines what is esthetically essential is precisley the formation of an experience as an experience." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Second, based on the ideas you submit and the comments they receive, a team of world-class visual artists and subject-matter experts will select the most promising ideas for sustainable communities in a variety of cultures. ❋ William S. Becker (2011)
Whichever, in finding insights one should be prepared to have to pay the usual price for excellence: spending a lot of time to get to know the subject-matter. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The continual plight of a Sri Lankan's quest for employment would not - under normal circumstances - make the BBC's 6 o'clock news coverage, yet the subject-matter is interesting, absorbing and newsworthy. ❋ Scott Hill (2011)
Yet you're bound to wonder if it's just another ego trip that allows new subject-matter and a new persona for his journalism, the laddish type being so 1990s and, in any case, not quite right for a man nearing his sixth decade. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Lisette smiled and remarked, "So often you two girls photograph the same subject-matter, but you have such very different points-of-view!" ❋ Jill Lynne (2011)
That [consultant] who produced that [flowchart] is [clearly] a subject matter asshole ❋ BostonGhost (2017)
