<광부화가들>과 경험으로서의 예술 -존 듀이(John Dewey)철학의 경험 개념에 근거하여 (The Pitmen Painters and Art as an Experience -On the Concept of Experience in John Dewey's Philosophy)

서지정보

· 발행기관 : 강원대학교 인문과학연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 인문과학연구 / 41호 / 323 ~ 342페이지
· 저자명 : 박연숙

초록

예술은 과거 오랫동안 특권층의 전유물이었고, 오래도록 일상과 분리되어 왔다. 예술의 신비와 특권이 지배하는 가운데 예술 교육을 받지 못한 사람들에게 예술은 이해하기 어려운 것, 쉽게 접근할 수 없는 것으로 생각되어 왔다. 영국의 작가 리 홀(Lee Hall)의 <광부화가들>은 영국에서 실제로 활동했던 애싱턴 그룹을 모델로 한 작품이다. 애싱턴 탄광촌의 교육받지 못한 광부들에게 예술은 전혀 이해할 수 없는 것이었다. 그러나 우연히 듣게 된 미술감상 수업을 계기로 그들의 삶에 그림은 분리될 수 없는 것이 되어 버렸다. 이 수업의 교사는 광부들에게 그림을 이해시키고자 직접 그림을 그려보자고 제안하는데, 그 결과는 기대 이상의 결실을 이룬다. 본 논문에서는 <광부화가들>에 나타난 경험을 통한 교육과 성장의 과정을 철학자 존 듀이(John Dewey)의 경험 개념으로 뒷받침하고 이 작품에서 환기된 예술의 관점과 태도를 듀이의 미학과 연결시켜 예술과 일상의 연속성을 지지하고 나아가 문화 민주화를 주장하고자 한다.

영어초록

Emperical research shows that art has for a long time been in the exclusive domain of the priviledged class, thus being quite estranged from the real lives of commoners. For commoners without training, art remained a subject that was hard to comprehend and difficult to approach, as it had traditionally been ruled by the barriers of both mysticism and privilege. Amidst this background, British author Lee Hall's play The Pitmen Painters was written as an account of the real life activities of the Ashington Group in Great Britain that began in 1934. At the time of the Group's founding, the miners of Ashington had never received much education thus understood art as something they could not comprehend. But an opportunity to take art appreciation classes had started a series of awakenings that made art inseparable from their lives. The most important catalyst that allowed for the miners to mature into artists was a visiting instructor from New Castle who's challenge of teaching art appreciation to miners, who have never once seen a painting before, led to the important suggestion that they try drawing firsthand. The results of the suggestion had become something no one could have anticipated.
The current paper aims to explain the process of education and maturity in The Pitmen Painters, with support from John Dewey's concept of experience and art as an experience. Connection will be made between Dewey’s aesthetics and the perspective or attitude towards art portrayed in the play, in order to ultimately arrive at a wider statement for the democratization of culture. More specifically, John Dewey's philosophy on education as well as his concept of aesthetics will be the basis by which The Pitmen Painters characters and events will be analyzed and focused to reflect upon the problems we have in our modern education and the arts.

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