Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate about the Benefits of the Arts
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ISBN: 0833036947 / Publisher: RAND Corporation, January 2005
This study offers a new framework for understanding how the arts create private and public value, highlights the importance of the arts intrinsic benefits and indentifies how both instrumental and instrinsic benefits are created.
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Four RAND Corporation researchers review what they claim are all benefits associated with the arts--including intrinsic and instrumental benefits--analyze how these benefits may be created, and examine how they accrue to individuals and the public through different forms of arts participation. They consider cognitive, attitudinal and behavioral, health, social, and economic benefits. There is no index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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