The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History

by Oliver Bennett (Author), Eleonora Belfiore (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $154.71

  An intellectual history of contrasting ideas around the power of the arts to bring about personal and societal change - for better and worse. A fascinating account of the value and functions of the arts in society, in both the private sphere of individual emotions and self-development and public sphere of politics and social distinction.