Better living through criticism : how to think about art, pleasure, beauty, and truth / A.O. Scott.
Better living through criticism : how to think about art, pleasure, beauty, and truth / A.O. Scott.
Better living through criticism : how to think about art, pleasure, beauty, and truth / A.O. Scott.
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New York, New York : Penguin Press, [2016]
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G 2016/585
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English
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277 pages ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
What is criticism? (a preliminary dialogue) -- The critic as artist and vice versa -- The eye of the beholder -- Self-criticism (a further dialogue) -- Lost in the museum -- The trouble with critics -- Practical criticism (another dialogue) -- How to be wrong -- The critical condition -- The end of...
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Publisher
New York, New York : Penguin Press, [2016]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2016]
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"The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever. Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal...
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Better living through criticism : how to think about art, pleasure, beauty, and truth / A.O. Scott.
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Includes index.
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©2016.
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G 2016/585
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74VKzRNLGqAM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzRNLGqAM
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ISBN
1594204837 (hardback)
9781594204838 (hardback)
DDC
801.95
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991023435939702626
