WORSHIP is the third book in the Art and Society series. The first was WAR; the second was WORK. A fourth title, SEX, will complete the series. The aim 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 Three: Worship
Authors: Ken and Kate Baynes
Publisher: Welsh Arts Council/Lund Humphries
Publication date: 1971
Language: English
Format:softcover
Pages: 96
Images: Illustrated in colour and b/w
Book Condition: very good
Stock Number: RB05436 RG 67
WORSHIP is the third book in the Art and Society series. The first was WAR; the second was WORK. A fourth title, SEX, will complete the series. The aim 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 Three: Worship
Authors: Ken and Kate Baynes
Publisher: Welsh Arts Council/Lund Humphries
Publication date: 1971
Language: English
Format:softcover
Pages: 96
Images: Illustrated in colour and b/w
Book Condition: very good
Stock Number: RB05436 RG 67
