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Focuses on philosopher John Dewey's philosophy of art. Reference to his book "Art As Experience"; Description of art as the mode of experiencing in which through the imaginative use of a medium, the organization of color, light, line and sound the liveness of the live creature is enlivened; View that experience is only completely realized where it is imaginative and that experience is only purely and thoroughly realized in, or as, art; Dewey's philosophy of art is less an esthetics than a work on experience in excelsis; Notion that experience is whole, not compartmentalized, throws important light on the question of expressiveness in the arts, not least in his explicit treatment of the relation of substance and form. INSET: Untitled.

Presents excerpts from a lecture given at a celebration of writer William James's centenary in January 1942, at the National University of Mexico.