
What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780571395514
Publication Date: 03/25/2025
Edition Description: Main
“Any aspiring artist—but especially any aspiring musician—will be grateful.”
Why do we need art?
What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us.
Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring call to imagine a different future.
—Amanda Petrusich, the New Yorker
"Really delightful."
—Ezra Klein
Why do we need art?
What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us.
Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring call to imagine a different future.
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What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
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