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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777410303321

Autore

Binkiewicz Donna M

Titolo

Federalizing the muse : United States arts policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965-1980 / / Donna M. Binkiewicz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

979-88-908717-3-2

0-8078-6326-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

700.103097309045

700/.1/03097309045

Soggetti

Federal aid to the arts - United States - History - 20th century

Art and state - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Federalizing the Muse; 1. Prelude to Policy; 2. Let Us Begin: Arts Policy during the Kennedy Administration; 3. Let Us Continue: Arts Policy during the Johnson Administration; Part II. The Endowment; 4. Creating an Agency: The National Council on the Arts and Its Agenda; 5. A Modernist Vision: Visual Arts Program Administration, 1967–1975; 6. The Improbable Patron: Richard Nixon and the Expansion of Arts Policy; 7. The Pluralist Seventies; Conclusion; Notes; Notes; Notes; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

The National Endowment for the Arts is often accused of embodying a liberal agenda within the American government. This text assesses the leadership and goals of Presidents Kennedy through Carter, as well as Congress and the National Council on Arts, covering the players who created national arts policy.