| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
May the artist live? -- Art as grandeur -- Art as enrichment -- Art as a weapon -- Art as experience -- Art as subversion. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Work Projects Administration.
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United States. Work Projects Administration. |
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Federal aid to the arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Federal aid to the arts. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
New Deal, 1933-1939.
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New Deal, 1933-1939. |
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Art and state.
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Art and state. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Musher, Sharon Ann, 1972- Democratic art 9780226247182 (DLC) 2014037015 (OCoLC)887849292 |
| ISBN |
9780226247212 (electronic book) |
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022624721X (electronic book) |
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9780226247182 (print) |
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022624718X |
| Standard No. |
40025046283 |
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