America's Commitment to Culture : government and the Arts / edited by Kevin V. Mulcahy and Margaret Jane Wyszomirski

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Publication details: Boulder ; San Francisco ; Oxford : Westview Press, cop. 1995Description: xiv, 235 pISBN:

0813306922

Summary: 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. As in other policy areas, cultural policies develop within a particular political context, evolve as a consequence of government action or inattention, and affect a variety of publics and interests. America's Commitment to Culture discusses government support of culture as a public policy area. The book focuses on the rationales underlying public support for the arts and examines the development and practice of government as an arts patron. The contributors explore the inescapable politics accompanying public culture. Surveying the philosophical, economic, legal, and political underpinnings of cultural assistance, they articulate not only government’s role in the support of the arts, but also basic questions for future cultural policy. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 03469	1	Available (Disponible)		1900024464

Acknowledgments -- About the Editors and Contributors -- 1. From Accord to Discord: Arts Policy During and After the Culture Wars / Margaret Jane Wyszomírskí -- 2. The Politics of Arts Policy: "Sub government to Issue Network / Margaret Jane Wyszomírski -- 3. Federal Arts Patronage in the New Deal / Lawrence D. Mankín -- 4. To Change a Nation's Cultural Policy: The Kennedy Administration and the Arts in the United States, 1961-1963 / Milton C. Cummings, Jr. -- 5. The Organization of Public Support for the Arts / Margaret Jane Wyszomirski, Kevin V. Mulcahy -- 6. Leadership and the NEA: The Roles of the Chairperson and the National Council on the Arta / David B. Pankratz, Carla Hanzal -- 7. The NEA and the Reauthorization Process: Congress and Arts Policy Issues / Kevin V. Mulcahy -- 8. The Process of Commissioning Public Sculpture: "Due” or "Duel,” / Judith Huggins Balfe -- 9. The Public Interest and Arts Policy /Kevin V. Mulcahy -- Index -- About the Book

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