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Art Can Help

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Art Can Help

By Robert Adams

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About the book

A collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams offers over two dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. In particular, Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or sentimentality, art that "encourages us to gratitude and engagement, and is of both personal and civic consequence." Fo...Show more

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9780300229240

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2017

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1

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Art Can Help

Format

Hardcover

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