What good are the arts? (Record no. 6642)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199735976
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Carey, John
240 00 - UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title What good are the arts?
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title What good are the arts?
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford Univ Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2006
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 286 p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Do the arts make us better people? Are they a sign of civilization? Why should 'high' art be thought higher than 'low'? Are judgements about art anything more than personal opinions? What are works of art anyway - do they belong to some special, sacred category? Can the brain-scientists who are investigating the arts tell us anything useful about them? In the first part of his new book John Carey returns startling answers to these and related questions. In the second part he makes out a self-confessedly personal and subjective case for the superiority of literature to all other arts.
653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED
Uncontrolled term Aesthetics
-- Art
-- Philosophy
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     English Non-Fiction Adolescent-Adult GESM Library GESM Library Main Library 26/10/2017 1 ENA/ 700 CAR E0002256 15/09/2025 09/09/2025 26/10/2017 Books