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Title: HOMO AESTHETICUS
WHERE ART COMES FROM AND WHY
By: Ellen Dissanayake
Format: Hardback

List price: £19.95


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ISBN 10: 0029078857
ISBN 13: 9780029078853
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Pub. date: 28 February, 1992
Edition: New ed.
Pages: 300
Description: The controversy about the public funding of the arts in the USA has sparked off afresh the debate about the nature and function of art. This book argues that art is an essential human activity, but that this has been obscured in modern society.
Synopsis: The controversy about the public funding of the arts in the USA has sparked off afresh the debate about the nature and function of art. This book argues that art is an essential human activity, but that this has been obscured in modern society.
Publication: US
Imprint: The Free Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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