WORK is the second book in the Art and Society series which included WAR, WORSHIP and SEX. The aim of the series is to show something of the role that art plays in the major concerns of human life.
We are used to thinking of art as something rarefied - perhaps even as something distant from everyday existence. But the great majority of works have a far more immediate kind of purpose. This does not mean that they are trivial. Indeed, they represent that part of culture which is most active in the minds and imaginations of ordinary people.
The Art and Society series attempts to give an answer to the question 'what use is art?. It does not do this in any theoretical way. Instead, each book illustrates the things that people actually have made and used so that the range of activities is at once obvious. The series received a warm welcome as a pioneering venture. "They are excellent publications and deserve to be widely argued over.' Times Literary Supplement.
Title: Art and Society Two: WORK
Authors: Ken and Kate Baynes
Publisher: Welsh Arts Council/Lund Humphries
Publication date: 1970
Language: English
Format: softcover
Pages: 96 approx
Images: Illustrated in colour and b/w
Book Condition: very good
Stock Number: RB05437 RG 67
WORK is the second book in the Art and Society series which included WAR, WORSHIP and SEX. The aim of the series is to show something of the role that art plays in the major concerns of human life.
We are used to thinking of art as something rarefied - perhaps even as something distant from everyday existence. But the great majority of works have a far more immediate kind of purpose. This does not mean that they are trivial. Indeed, they represent that part of culture which is most active in the minds and imaginations of ordinary people.
The Art and Society series attempts to give an answer to the question 'what use is art?. It does not do this in any theoretical way. Instead, each book illustrates the things that people actually have made and used so that the range of activities is at once obvious. The series received a warm welcome as a pioneering venture. "They are excellent publications and deserve to be widely argued over.' Times Literary Supplement.
Title: Art and Society Two: WORK
Authors: Ken and Kate Baynes
Publisher: Welsh Arts Council/Lund Humphries
Publication date: 1970
Language: English
Format: softcover
Pages: 96 approx
Images: Illustrated in colour and b/w
Book Condition: very good
Stock Number: RB05437 RG 67
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