What good are the arts? / John Carey

By:

Carey, John

Publication details: London : Faber and Faber, 2006Description: xiv, 296 pISBN:

9780571226030

Summary: Do you feel spiritually improved after a visit toan art gallery, more refined when you spend a night at the opera, wiser when you've finished a classic novel? Ever wondered if the arts really are everything they're cracked up to be? In this bestselling and highly controversial work, John Carey takes on our preconceptions about the good of the arts - and comes up with some surprising answers. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00474	1	Available		1900133805

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. 1. What is a work of art? ; 2. Is 'high' art superior? ; 3. Can science help? ; 4. Do the arts make us better? ; 5. Can art be a religion? -- II. The Case for Literature ; 6. Literature and critical intelligence ; 7. Creative reading: Literature and indistinctness -- Afterword -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index

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