 There has been considerable discussion in aesthetics whether art has intrinsic value or whether its value is dependent on some external goal it helps to fulfill. Dewey rejects the dichotomy, because he thinks talk of art’s utilitarian aspects tends to involve a too narrow conception of utility. The utility of an artwork is different in kind from the utility of an umbrella or a mower. While these and similar utilitarian objects serve “a particular and limited end”, an artwork “serves life”, for example by carrying us to “a refreshed attitude toward the circumstances and exigencies of ordinary experience” (AE: 140, 144). Artworks can serve life through their evocative function; they can raise experiences that educate us. Dewey also emphasizes how the work of the artwork does not end at the close of the immediate experience, but “continues to operate in indirect channels” (AE: 144).