LITERACY AS AN ARTISTIC WORK: AESTHETIC IMPLICATIONS IN THE EFFORT TO READ AND WRITE IN ADULTHOOD

Back to Page Authors: Alfredo Cesar da Veiga

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Keywords: adult education, aesthetics, work of art, identity

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Abstract: This paper is based on the premise that there is an intrinsic relation between the learning of reading and writing with the aesthetic emotion to the extent that, when the subject is able to write his own name for the first time and is able to read it, he or she discovers, reveals him/herself and sees him/herself as capable of triggering, in his/her own action, a process of autonomy and self-determination. Part of the idea is that, just as the artist rejoices in contemplating his work on a canvas, so he/she who has learned to read and write not only admires what he/she has done, but also unleashes a true to get in touch with his/her own name, exclaims, "this is me." We can therefore consider writing and the ability to read as works of art as much as painting on a canvas, but also to consider artist who, in writing, arranged the letters on a sheet of paper. Both bring forth feelings enriched and shaped by the imagination, putting in the paper or the screen the form of these emotions.

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