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![Is Art Good for Us?: Beliefs about High Culture in American Life by Joli Jensen](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBOEdLckE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ed919581a7fdcde02edeab72c2c1a82b84b0b317/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Is%20Art%20Good%20for%20Us%3F-%20Beliefs%20about%20High%20Culture%20in%20American%20Life.jpg)
224 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780742517417
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication date: 08 April 2002
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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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224 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780742517417
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication date: 08 April 2002
Description
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...