What good are the arts?

By:

Carey, John

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Oxford Univ Press 2006Description: 286 pISBN:

9780199735976

Uniform titles:

What good are the arts?

Subject(s):

Aesthetics Art Philosophy

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	GESM Library Main Library	English Non-Fiction Adolescent-Adult	ENA/ 700 CAR	Available	E0002256

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.

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