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Faber Non Fiction, April 2025
ISBN
9780571395514
Format
Softcover, 128 pages
Dimensions
16cm × 11.1cm

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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.

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