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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606753935 Title: Is art good for us? : beliefs about high culture in American life Author: Joli Jensen Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2002. OCLC:606753935

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Is art good for us? : beliefs about high culture in American life

Author:	Joli Jensen
Publisher:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2002.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Are the arts good for us? This work questions our taken-for-granted assumptions about the transformational powers of high culture by critiquing an instrumental American heritage of beliefs about the arts. Read more...
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Subjects	Arts, American -- Psychological aspects.
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Additional Physical Format:	Print version: Jensen, Joli. Is art good for us?. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2002 (DLC) 2002001194 (OCoLC)48678771
Material Type:	Document, Internet resource
Document Type:	Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors:	Joli Jensen Find more information about:
OCLC Number:	606753935
Reproduction Notes:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 231 pages)
Details:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Contents:	Exemplary voices: Tocqueville, Whitman, and Mumford -- Arts for renewal, revolution, conservation, and subversion -- Art as antidote: the mass culture debates -- Art as elixir: contemporary arts discourse -- Art as experience: John Dewey's aesthetics -- Conclusion: the value of expressive logic.
Responsibility:	Joli Jensen.

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In this brilliant work, Joli Jensen speaks with the reach and range and assurance of the public intellectuals she has read so carefully. She shows that 'we have not been thinking or talking wisely or Read more...

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