Dewey's own account of aesthetic experience in 'Art as Experience' locates it in the consummatory quality of absorbed, skilled everyday engagement—not in making the familiar strange.
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consummatory quality(describing what makes an experience meaningful)
The feeling of something being complete, satisfying, and whole in itself—like when you finish a meal and feel fully satisfied rather than still wanting more.
making the familiar strange(what Dewey argues against as the source of aesthetic experience)
The idea of presenting ordinary things in unexpected ways to make us see them differently, like an artist reimagining a common object in an unusual form.