Art Lessons: Learning from the Rise and Fall of Public Arts Funding
by Marquis, Alice Goldfarb
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0465004377
- ISBN 13
- 9780465004379
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About This Item
New York: BasicBooks; HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. x, 304 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "After forty years of subsidy and billions of dollars spent, American arts institutions are no more secure financially than before. Behind the headlines about controversial grants to the arts abides a realm of conservatism, bureaucracy, and jostling special interests, Alice Goldfarb Marquis maintains. With well-established, mainstream institutions capturing the bulk of government subsidies, artistic repertoires are reaching ever further into the past while truly innovative artists languish on the sidelines. Art Lessons is a fresh look at how Americans fund the arts - and why - by a major cultural historian. Packed with anecdotes about the creation of such leading cultural institutions as Lincoln Center, the National Endowment of the Arts, and the American Film Institute, and filled with stories about politicians, artists, philanthropists, and NEA chairs, the book offers a behind-the-scenes look at our cultural elite: the early battles over whether to allow affluent Jews to be part of the fund-raising establishment . the controversies over the influence of popular artists such as Leonard Bernstein ("Nobody liked him except the public," carped one critic) . the monumental mistakes made in the building of Washington's Kennedy Center, which have necessitated repeated federal bailouts . . . and much more. From John Kennedy's determination to bolster America's arts as part of his Cold War strategy against the Soviets, to Richard Nixon's support of the NEA's greatest expansion, to Ronald Reagan's abortive efforts to slash arts funding when Republican arts patrons and corporate funders objected, the book is filled with surprises." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
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- Title
- Art Lessons: Learning from the Rise and Fall of Public Arts Funding
- Author
- Marquis, Alice Goldfarb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0465004377
- ISBN 13
- 9780465004379
- Publisher
- BasicBooks; HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Museums; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999; Patronage / State & Government;
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