| #383849 in Books | John Carey | 2006-01-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.80 x1.10 x8.30l,1.15 | File Name: 019530554X | 304 pages | What Good Are the Arts
||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting view of aesthetics|By William M. Hinds|Dr. John Carey in this compact volume takes the position that only literature can rationally be considered "art". Having "shown" that someone will pronounce anything to be art in other aesthetic disciplines, and that therefore none of it actually is, he crowns literature because of the multi-variant interpretations possible.|From Publishers Weekly|"People in the West have been saying extravagant things about the arts for two and a half centuries," sighs Carey, Professor of English at Oxford and eminent critic, at the outset of this witty and irreverent dismissal of cultural elitism
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--here cuts through the cant surrounding the fine arts, debunking claims that the arts make us better people or that judgments abo...
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