Freeland, Chapter 3

In this chapter, Freeland talks about culture and how Dewey's argument of art being a window into another culture is true. Art can break down barriers among cultures as Dewey thought. He insisted that art is a universal language, and I agree with that. I think that art is one of those things that can pass from culture to culture and within different culutres and still be understood. She goes on to discuss how even artist within cultures have a hard time finding what the value of art really is. With each new piece of art within a culture, it is like a stepping stone of the history and the future all in one. She also talked about how even though the art within a culture: where the values and traditions of that culture are portrayed; It still has been "touched" by the world, and thus creates a common ground throughout all cultures and all pieces of art.