Is art good for us?
Subtitle: beliefs about high culture in American life
By: Joli Jensen.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Arts, American -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215) and index.
Table of contents: title: Exemplary voices: Tocqueville, Whitman, and Mumford; title: Arts for renewal, revolution, conservation, and subversion; title: Art as antidote: the mass culture debates; title: Art as elixir: contemporary arts discourse; title: Art as experience: John Dewey's aesthetics; title: Conclusion: the value of expressive logic.