Despite its size and its economic impact, the US arts community is not articulate about how it serves the public interest. This book encourages policy makers to investigate the crucial importance of the arts in the US, aiming to to provide new ideas, concepts and data.
This collection of essays addresses the problems of contemporary executive leadership in the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, focusing on cabinet government, domestic, military and economic advisers, executive agencies and personal staff for presidents and prime ministers. The 18 essays offer comparisons between and among the various ...
The arts and creative sector is one of the nation's broadest, most important, and least understood social and economic assets, encompassing both nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, for-profit creative companies, such as advertising agencies, film producers, and commercial publishers, and community-based artistic activities. The thirteen ...
"Scholars from both the humanities and the social sciences, policy makers, and anyone interested in the interplay between social and cultural processes should find this collection to be of great use."--Wendy Griswold, University of Chicago
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 ...
Broad-based and cross-cultural, this volume is an analysis of policy and the role of the arts and culture in two very different nations - Japan and the United States. The contributors offer their definitions of what culture is.
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