Reading this book is like interacting with a piece of art. The concise writing and playful drawings invite you to engage with the material - you could breeze through it in half an hour, or you could savour each section and exercise your imagination muscle as you chew on the meaning of its sparsely expressed key ideas, like “fiction feelings”, “art is proof of care", “art engagement starts where functional engagement ends.” I have limited knowledge of art and found it thought-provoking. -Erin, library team
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Filled with drawings, aphorisms, and generous provocations, we added this one at the last minute because it’s something special. A small book that helps you make sense of humanity’s place in the aesthetic world, it’s disarmingly hopeful — and honestly, I think it is wonderful. -ane
UWCSEA Library
ebook coming soon
128 pages
2025
Why do we need art?
What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us.
Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring call to imagine a different future.