# Art and Action, Vol. 1

By **Chloe Ward**

- ISBN-13: 9780198992806
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 256
- Published: 11 Aug 2026

## About this book

What is the purpose of art? In the middle of the nineteenth century, English artists and art writers argued that painting was a powerful, untapped vehicle of social reform. Art had the ability--indeed, the responsibility--to provoke real change to improve lives in the face of rapid industrialisation, increasingly visib

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