Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-288) and index.
Contents
Prelude to policy -- Let us begin : arts policy during the Kennedy administration -- Let us continue : arts policy during the Johnson administration -- Creating an agency : the National Council on the Arts and its agenda -- A modernist vision : visual arts program administration, 1967-1975 -- The improbable patron : Richard Nixon and the expansion of arts policy -- The pluralist seventies.