1st Edition
Subsidizing Culture Taxpayer Enrichment of the Creative Class
Edited By James T. Bennett
Copyright 2016
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the American mind, state subsidization of writers and artists was long associated with monarchies and, in later years, socialist states. The support these regimes gave to intellectuals was understood to come with a cost, yet, beginning with the New Deal's Federal Writers', Art, and Theater Projects, a new policy consensus asserted that by offering financial support to the arts, the federal... Read more
One: A New Deal or a New Dole?: Artists, Writers, and Federal One; Tow: Weaponizing Art— and Intellectuals; Three: Lyndon B. Johnson Does Culture: The National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities; Conclusion
Biography
James T. Bennett
