Culture.

In today's readings, Freeland writes about how Dewey believes that "art is the best possible window into another culture." I think that Dewey's argument is totally true. The way different cultures represent their people and beliefs through sculpture, paintings, jewelry making, etc. is very interesting. This is a way that certain cultures can reflect on their past and present in a creative manner.

Freeland goes on to sort of disagree with what Dewey was saying by talking about post-colonialism and its effect on culture. I guess this is a valid point. Cultures do go through many changes and art can merely be showing the changes that they are going through at that particular time. I don't really identify strongly with one particular culture so I don't think that I have very much knowledge on cultural traditions or how the art of them depicts the people and events.