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What Good Are the Arts?
What Good Are the Arts
Author: John Carey
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--h...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199735976
ISBN-10: 0199735972
Publication Date: 2/26/2010
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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How can we say that one work of art eclipses another? Are certain art forms superior to the others? The author, a reviewer and lit prof at Oxford, attempts to answer those questions, and he does so in an engaging and readable book. In my top five favorite books read in 2006.


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