Brian Eno Explores What Art Does in a New Book Co-Written with Artist Bette A

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Brian Eno Explores What Art Does in a New Book Co-Written with Artist Bette A

Brian Eno was thinking about the purpose of art a decade ago, as evidenced by his 2015 John Peel Lecture (previously featured here on Open Culture). But he was also thinking about it three decades ago, as evidenced by A Year with Swollen Appendices, his diary of the year 1995 published by Faber & Faber. This year, that same house is bringing out What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory, a new book on that very subject written by Eno, in collaboration…