Society and the Arts

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This paper argues that art must be viewed as a fundamental means of sustaining existence and identity. It shows how society can and should support art through tax deductions, non-profit educational institutions and other forms of government subsidies.

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"Today, the relatively new field of art therapy is one of the few acknowledgments that art is not merely decoration for the rich or the academic elite or the preserve of the obsessively talented (Sweet pp). The production of art should be viewed as a necessity for everyone, the rich or poor, smart or dumb, disturbed or not (Sweet pp). The contemporary tendency to diminish the importance of what used to be referred to as a "liberal arts education," and the downsizing of art and music classes in our grade schools, certainly underscores society's miscomprehension of the "basic need to know ourselves and the best means to exercise that knowledge" (Sweet pp)."

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