Gifts of the muse reframing the debate about the benefits of the arts by kevin f mccarthy elizabeth heneghan ondaatje laura zakaras arthur brooks related topics arts and policy arts education children citation embed view related products. Gifts of the muse reframing the debate about the benefits of the arts kevin f mccarthy isbn 9780833036940 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Gifts of the muse reframing the debate about the benefits of the arts kindle edition by mccarthy kevin f download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading gifts of the muse reframing the debate about the benefits of the arts. During the past decade arts advocates have relied on an instrumental approach to the benefits of the arts in arguing for support of the arts this report evaluates these arguments and asserts that a new approach is needed this new appraoch offers a more comprehensive view of how the arts create private and public value underscores the importance of the arts intrinsic benefits and links . Such benefits are instrumental in that the arts are viewed as a means of achieving broad social and economic goals that have nothing to do with art per se policy advocates acknowledge that these are not the sole benefits stemming from the arts that the arts also enrich peoples lives but the main argument downplays these other intrinsic benefits in aligning itself with an