Is Art Good for Us?: Beliefs about High Culture in American Life by Joli Jensen

Is Art Good for Us?: Beliefs about High Culture in American Life

Joli Jensen

224 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

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Are the arts good for us? This book questions our taken-for-granted assumptions about the transformational powers of high culture by critiquing an instrumental American heritage of beliefs about the arts. Jensen argues that faith in high culture's...

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