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What Good are the Arts?

Condition: Standard Secondhand — £6.33
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Language is the medium that we use to convey ideas, and the usual ingredients of other arts objects, noises, light effects - cannot replicate this function. Literature has the ability to inspire the mind and the heart towards practical ends far better than any work of conceptual art."--BOOK JACKET.

Format: Paperback
Published: 2006
Pages: 296
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571226030

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