Week 4 Q&A 01

"1. If art is an experience, is someone reading a book and someone writing a book experiencing the same level of artistry?"

At first, I thought that they might be, according to Dewey's logic, but I thought on it. A person reading a book can experience many feelings, such as the ones the artist felt. And a person reading a book is having an experience, like Dewey said. A person writing a book is experiencing many feelings and they are also having an experience.
However, I think the difference between the two is the fact that the person reading a book is drawing from the author's experiences. Their experiences are most likely mingling with the authors, but the author has to draw completely from his own realm of experiences. I also think that a person reading a book adds an experience of reading a book to their general stream of experience, and for an author, it is much more significant. I do think they are both experiencing some level of artistry, but the author's is most certainly higher.