WHAT GOOD IS ART?

WHAT GOOD IS ART? In an age when QUANTITY surpasses QUALITY-special arts and crafts, like printing, carving, book binding, rug making and numeous manual skills become superfilous adn works of art are cheaply made and cheaply reproduced(so the masses can ostensibly enjoy them better).... Where once books,in disregard of their content or subject, were (& still are) WORKS OF ART,especially those of ages past...these are no longer preserved except for the wealthy(collectors)..... Libraries have become warehouses where books are housed, recycled, shredded, etc. and reduced to mere cmmodities, usually of too little monetary value to keep on the shelves-DISPOSABLES like toilet paper.... LIBRARIES ARE NO LONGER REPOSITORIES OF KNOWLEDGE and hardly WISDOM but MERELY places of reduced information, mass produced for ELECTRONIC STORAGE which will not outlast the stone slabs or carvings of the Ancients......