The Instress of Art: A Lawyer’s Guide to a Better Life, my first in a series of lectures on the utility of art for achieving success in every area of life, will be available 8/24/09 on CD at www.instressofart.com.
“Art, as we observe it being practiced and ‘consumed’ about us, seems to be a biologically useless activity. The practice of it, perhaps, a pleasant hobby; and the beholding of its products an agreeable way of occupying one’s leisure; but biologically considered all this seems to be only a by-product of life. Human beings would apparently live just as long and be just as healthy without it. How then is it to be explained that art is a phenomenon to be found at all stages of human development, even the most primitive?”
~Curt John Ducasse, The Philosophy of Art (1929)
Check out The Instress of Art and find out why art is NOT (like many things) what it may SEEM or APPEAR to be.
