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Democratic art : the New Deal's influence on American culture /
Throughout the Great Recession, American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn't always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 million to supporting tens of thousands of needy artists, who used that suppo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Throughout the Great Recession, American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn't always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 million to supporting tens of thousands of needy artists, who used that support to create more than 100,000 works. Why did the government become so involved with these artists, and why weren't these projects considered a frivolous waste of funds, as surely many would be today? In this book, Sharon Musher explores these questions and uses them as a springboard for an examination of the role art can and should play in contemporary society. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226247212 022624721X |