What Good Are The Arts?

Author: John Carey

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  • : $28.99 NZD
  • : 9780571226030
  • : Faber & Faber Ltd
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  • : 01 June 2006
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Description

Looking at the true value of art, Carey both asks and answers many questions regarding our perception of the arts, as well as making a self-confessedly personal and subjective case for the superiority of literature over all other arts.

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What Good are the Arts? by John Carey is a provocative, entertaining and devastatingly intelligent assessment of the values and problems of art.