Book review of "WHAT GOOD ARE THE ARTS?" by John Carey, Oxford Univ.
In the Washington Post, reviewer Michael Dirda says "…doing art matters because it is in our very nature as homo faber to want to shape the ordinary into the special, that such activity can assuage the loneliness that is modern man’s particular burden, and that art mystically helps us to feel that we matter as individuals — that we, in effect, truly exist."
Read the full review here – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012601712.html