The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History by Belfiore, Eleonora

The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230572553)

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The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History by Belfiore, Eleonora

The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History

$129.99
The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History by Belfiore, Eleonora

The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History

$129.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Eleonora Belfiore, Oliver Bennett
ISBN-10: 0230572553
ISBN-13: 9780230572553
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2008
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d
By Eleonora Belfiore
By Eleonora Belfiore
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ELEONORA BELFIORE is Assistant Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, where she teaches postgraduate courses in British and European cultural policy. Her published work explores the function of the arts in modern societies and the relation of arts policy to other forms of social and economic policy.

OLIVER BENNETT is Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published extensively on the politics of culture and is the founding editor of The International Journal of Cultural Policy. He is the author of Cultural Pessimism: Narratives of Decline in the Postmodern World.

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