Product Description: Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 185 pages; Description: viii, 185, [11] p. ; 21 cm. Includes index. Subjects: Art and state --United States. Art patronage --United States...read more

Product Description: Since the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts in 1965 and the subsequent establishment of state arts agencies, government support of the arts and the recognition of public responsibility for the state of culture in America has become a reality...read more

Conceived and funded by the State Department in 1946 as part of a new emphasis in international diplomacy, the exhibition of paintings called "Advancing American Art" was launched on what was enthusiastically projected as an extended goodwill tour of Europe and Latin America. But almost immediately the exhibition was attacked by conservative groups as "un-American" and "subversive", and its abstract paintings were ridiculed in the national media, in Congress, and by no less a critic than President Truman. Following their dramatic recall by Secretary Marshall in 1947, the exhibit's 117 paintings were quietly declared "surplus property" and sold under unusual and curious circumstances by the War Assets Administration. Most of the collection was acquired by a small number of public universities in what could be called the art bargain of the century, since works by such figures as Marin, O'Keeffe, Shahn, Dove, Kuniyoshi and Hartley were sold for $100 or less. But the chronicle of this almost forgotten exhibition is less art history than an account of an event that tells us something about America after the war, when the nation sought to reconcile its sacrificial experiences of the last 15 years with its unsettling role in the new international theatre. A reconsideration of "Advancing American Art" within the context of its times captures a significant transitional moment in US history, defining the figures of confrontation that challenged America's tenuous self-conceptions in the critical period of postwar passage. The introduction is written by Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian, Leon Litwack.

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Product Description: This volume presents the work of social scientists, public policy analysts, policy makers, and arts-funding decision makers. The contributors seek to address serious issues confronting the future of the arts in America by defining the role of social science research in the formulation of public policies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts reveals how the controversy over the infamous Mapplethorpe exhibition eventually led to his downfall and how the experience transformed him into a free-speech radical. National ad/promo. Tour.

Product Description: Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano are now legendary, as much because of NEA support of their work as for the work itself. This is one example of what can happen when politics meets culture, and it provides an appropriate snapshot of the issues explored in this book...read more

There is among many nations a growing awareness that the arts and culture have an important role to play in forming the image that nations hold of themselves and that they convey in the international arena. At the same time, increased pressure on the public purse, new trade environments, and the revolution in communications technology are forcing the reexamination of cultural policy objectives and strategies for achieving those objectives in countries throughout the world. This book, based on the research and expertise of practitioners and scholars in the field of cultural policy, provides a broadly based cross-cultural analysis of policy in two countries with very different cultural traditions. The authors move beyond cultural boundaries to define 'art' and 'culture,' explore the role of cultural policies in a nation's cultural development, and evaluate policy effectiveness and relevance. Case studies of organizations in art, music, dance, and drama, in both the United States and Japan, examine the elements that contribute to effective arts management and policy-making. Arts managers, cultural policy-makers, researchers, practitioners, and educators will find this an excellent resource that provides valuable teaching materials in the field of cultural policy and facilitates cross-cultural learning about arts management. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: In September 1999, Sensation, an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum opened its doors, igniting a controversy still burning in the art world. This collection of cutting edge art from the Saatchi collection in England, and the museum's arrangements with Charles Saatchi to finance the show, so offended New York City mayor Rudolph Glutianl that he attempted to shut the museum down by withholding city funds that are crucially needed by that institution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Influenced by two decades of debate inside and outside the academy about the relationship among the arts, politics, and public policy, the essays collected in The Arts of Democracy represent the coming of age of one of the liveliest fields in contemporary academic life...read more

Product Description: How does political policy-making shape the creative activities of artists? Do the political interests of artists influence actual political practices in any way? Legislating Creativity examines the relationship between art and politics through an analysis of controversial art projects tied to the National Endowment for the Arts during the Culture Wars (late 1980s-1990s)...read more