What Good Are the Arts?

What Good Are the Arts?
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9780199735976
ISBN-13 : 0199735972
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Book Synopsis What Good Are the Arts? by : John Carey

Download or read book What Good Are the Arts? written by John Carey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the arts make us better people? Why should "high" art be thought higher than "low"? In the first part of this spirited polemic, Carey returns startling answers to these and related questions. In the second part he makes a provocative case for the superiority of literature to all other arts.


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