 On a basic level, by form Dewey means the thing that “organizes material into the matter of art” (AE: 139). Form is constituted by the different parts of the aesthetic object and by their relationships to one another. For Dewey, the parts of aesthetic form are not independent units. Rather, relationship is “something direct and active… dynamic and energetic” (AE: 139). With his conception of form, Dewey draws attention to 