Art without borders a philosophical exploration of art and humanity /
People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world's different art traditions relate to ar...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
| Summary: | People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world's different art traditions relate to art and to each other?Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein's encyclopedic erudition is here br. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 543 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-519) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226736112 (electronic bk.) 0226736113 (electronic bk.) |