{"product_id":"authority-and-freedom-9780593320051","title":"Authority and Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts—musical, literary, and visual—and their unique and unparalleled power to excite, disturb, and inspire us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs people look to the arts to promote a particular ideology, whether radical, liberal, or conservative, Jed Perl argues that the arts have their own laws and logic, which transcend the controversies of any one moment. “Art’s relevance,” he writes, “has everything to do with what many regard as its irrelevance.” \u003ci\u003eAuthority and Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e will find readers from college classrooms to foundation board meetings—wherever the arts are confronting social, political, and economic ferment and heated debates about political correctness and cancel culture.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePerl embraces the work of creative spirits as varied as Mozart, Michelangelo, Jane Austen, Henry James, Picasso, and Aretha Franklin.","brand":"Alfred A. Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525784019287,"sku":"9780593320051","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/authority-and-freedom-9780593320051","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}