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 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" (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post).
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