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Art: What is it Good For? (Debating Matters)

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This is a short book.
Essays are as follows;
1, What is art anyway ?, 2, Art: What's it all about then?, 3, Somebody's got to do it, 4, Serving a different god, 5, Art: agent or aesthetic?, 6, Reinventing the wheel.

This book is based on a great premise of making the 'what is art for?' debate simple and concise as possible. Although it's a pity it's not discussed by other critic's in the larger western world, etc (it's quite Brit-centric). For example the contemporary art market is unfortunately much smaller and more conservative in Australia. Although we have some very exciting artists here (often having to sell O/S to make a living).

Sadly to get more people to look or think about art we are going to have to make it a competitive sport where men can slug each other in tight shorts on TV.

Cheers Kirsty.