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Books like Art as Experience
The best books like Art as Experience are The Creative Habit, Ways of Seeing, and Steal Like an Artist. Art as Experience by John Dewey is about aesthetics, experience, perception. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Creative Habit
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Twyla Tharp · Self-help
The Creative Habit is legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp's account of how creativity works in practice — not as inspiration but as habit, discipline, and preparation.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Ways of Seeing
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John Berger · Philosophy
Ways of Seeing began as a BBC television series in 1972 and was published the same year as a slim, deliberately designed paperback.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Steal Like an Artist
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Austin Kleon · Self-help
Steal Like an Artist is Austin Kleon's short, illustrated guide to the creative process, built around the premise that nothing is truly original — all creative work is built from and inspired by what came before.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - The Varieties of Religious Experience
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James · Religion & Spirituality
The Varieties of Religious Experience originated as the Gifford Lectures delivered at Edinburgh in 1901–1902 and immediately became one of the most celebrated works in the study of religion.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques
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Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques
Valérie Filiou · Self-help
Abstract Painting is a practical handbook for painters who want to move beyond representation and learn to work with color, form, and gesture on their own terms.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - The Listening Book
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W.A. Mathieu · Philosophy
The Listening Book is W.A.
Shares perception and creativity with Art as Experience.
Read the summary → - Understanding Media
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Marshall McLuhan · Philosophy
Understanding Media, published in 1964, is Marshall McLuhan's most developed work and the book that made "the medium is the message" a catchphrase of the twentieth century.
Shares perception and culture with Art as Experience.
Read the summary → - Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards · Art
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain rests on a claim that has quietly reassured millions of self-declared non-artists: drawing is not a gift you're born with but a learnable skill, and it is a skill of seeing rather than of the hand.
Shares perception and creativity with Art as Experience.
Read the summary → - How Music Works
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David Byrne · History
David Byrne's central provocation in How Music Works is that music doesn't emerge from individual genius and then find a context — the context shapes and creates the music.
Shares creativity and culture with Art as Experience.
Read the summary → - Critique of Pure Reason
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Immanuel Kant · Philosophy
The Critique of Pure Reason is Kant's attempt to resolve a crisis in 18th-century philosophy by asking what human reason can and cannot know.
Both dig into experience.
Read the summary → - Experiencing Architecture
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Steen Eiler Rasmussen · Philosophy
Experiencing Architecture is the Danish architect and town planner Steen Eiler Rasmussen's attempt to teach non-architects how to see and feel buildings.
Both dig into perception.
Read the summary → - Finite and Infinite Games
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James P. Carse · Philosophy
Finite and Infinite Games is James Carse's 1986 philosophical meditation on two fundamentally different ways of engaging with the world.
Both dig into culture.
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Books like Art as Experience: quick answers
What are the best books like Art as Experience?
The best books like Art as Experience by John Dewey are The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, Ways of Seeing by John Berger, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques by Valérie Filiou, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Art as Experience, such as aesthetics, experience, perception.
What should I read after Art as Experience?
A natural next read after Art as Experience is The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp. Both dig into creativity. Other strong choices are Ways of Seeing by John Berger, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James.
What books are similar to Art as Experience by John Dewey?
Art as Experience centers on aesthetics, experience, perception. Books with a similar feel include The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, Ways of Seeing by John Berger, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques by Valérie Filiou, The Listening Book by W.A. Mathieu — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
