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What Good Are the Arts?

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Hailed as exhilarating and suggestive , thought-provoking and entertaining , and incisive and inspirational , 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--here cuts through the cant surrounding the fine arts, debunking claims that the arts make us better people or that judgments about art are anything more than personal opinion. But Carey does argue strongly for the value of art as an activity and for the superiority of one art in particular: literature. Literature, he contends, is the only art capable of reasoning, and the only art that can criticize. Literature has the ability to inspire the mind and the heart towards practical ends far better than any work of conceptual art. Here then is a lively and stimulating invitation to debate the value of art, a provocative book that anyone seriously interested in the arts should read .

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: January 20, 2006

ISBN: 019530554X

ISBN 13: 9780195305548

What Good Are the Arts?

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Hailed as exhilarating and suggestive , thought-provoking and entertaining , and incisive and inspirational , 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--here cuts through the cant surrounding the fine arts, debunking claims that the arts make us better people or that judgments about art are anything more than personal opinion. But Carey does argue strongly for the value of art as an activity and for the superiority of one art in particular: literature. Literature, he contends, is the only art capable of reasoning, and the only art that can criticize. Literature has the ability to inspire the mind and the heart towards practical ends far better than any work of conceptual art. Here then is a lively and stimulating invitation to debate the value of art, a provocative book that anyone seriously interested in the arts should read .

Language: English

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: January 20, 2006

ISBN: 019530554X

ISBN 13: 9780195305548

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