| Title : | The social impact of the arts : an intellectual history |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Eleonora Belfiore, Author ; Oliver Bennett, Author |
| Publisher: | New York : Palgrave, macmillan |
| Publication Date: | 2008 |
| Pagination: | viii, 240 p. |
| Size: | 24 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-230-27351-1 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-233)
Includes index (p. 235-240) |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | Arts and society
Intellectual life
|
| Class number: | 700.1 |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Contents note: | Towards a new approach to researching the social impacts of the arts; Defining the terms of the debate; On the pitfalls of; Euro-centrism; On the distinction between high and low culture; Identifying categories of functions of the arts; Corruption and distraction; Catharsis; Personal well-being; Education and Self-Development; Moral improvement and civilization; Political instrument; Social stratification and identity construction; Autonomy of the art and rejection of instrumentality; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=17065 |
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