What is Culture For? Shop For / The Home Can self-portraits offer windows into

Can self-portraits offer windows into artistic process

Featuring artists such as Prince

as well as how to look after the world

Wolfgang Tillmans

spoken by Yuin (Yuwinj) people between Nowra and Narooma and used as far inland as Braidwood and Araluen

What is Culture For? Shop For / The Home Can self-portraits offer windows intoOur societies frequently proclaim their enormous esteem for culture. Music, film, literature and the visual arts enjoy high prestige and are viewed by many as getting close to the meaning of life. But what is culture really for? This book proposes that works of culture were all made, in one way or another, with the idea of improving the way we live. This book connects a range of cultural masterpieces with our own dilemmas and pains around love, work