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What Good Are the Arts?
Contributor(s): Carey, John (Author)

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 ISBN: 0199735972     ISBN-13: 9780199735976
Publisher: Oxford University Press
OUR PRICE: $30.39  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
Dewey: 700.1
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 8.8" W x 8.32" L (0.73 lbs) 304 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
Hailed as exhilarating and suggestive (Spectator), thought-provoking and entertaining (David Lodge, Sunday Times), and incisive and inspirational (Guardian), What Good are the Arts? offers a delightfully skeptical look at the nature of art. John Carey--one of Britain's most respected
literary critics--here cuts through the cant surrounding the fine arts, debunking claims that the arts make us better people or that judgments about art are anything more than personal opinion. But Carey does argue strongly for the value of art as an activity and for the superiority of one art in
particular: literature. Literature, he contends, is the only art capable of reasoning, and the only art that can criticize. Literature has the ability to inspire the mind and the heart towards practical ends far better than any work of conceptual art. Here then is a lively and stimulating
invitation to debate the value of art, a provocative book that anyone seriously interested in the arts should read (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post).
 
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