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Starting to build his own aesthetics based on the philosophy of experience developed before, John Dewey made an astonishing announcement—in light of the tradition of aesthetic studies—that to build a theory of art one must follow a roundabout way and that works of art may form obstacles on this way. This is why Dewey’s aesthetics or—as he called it himself—philosophy of aesthetics is not focused on the fine arts, or at least not only on them