The politics of culture : policy perspectives for individuals, institutions, and communities / edited by Gigi Bradford, Michael Gary, and Glenn Wallach ; Center for Arts and Culture.

"What does culture have to do with policy? Debates over offensive art and government funding represent only a small part of our cultural landscape. We need to think about culture differently and bring new contexts to changing realities. What challenges will American cultural life face in the fu...

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Corporate Author: Center for Arts and Culture.
Other Authors: Bradford, Gigi., Gary, Michael., Wallach, Glenn, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Press, [2000]
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / James Allen Smith
  • Introduction / Glenn Wallach
  • Part I: Defining culture and cultural policy
  • Introduction / Gigi Bradford
  • Culture is ordinary / Raymond Williams
  • Invoking culture: the messy side of "cultural politics" / Virginia R. Dominguez
  • Social structure, institutions, and cultural goods: the case of the United States / Paul DiMaggio
  • The arts and the public purpose / The American Assembly
  • Creative America: a report to the President / President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
  • Designing a cultural policy / Justin Lewis
  • Policy communities and policy influence: securing a government role in cultural policy for the twenty-first century / Margaret Jane Wyszomirski
  • Part II: Supporting Culture
  • Introduction / Michael Gary
  • Culture and the state in America / Michael Kammen
  • A new mission for the NEA / Mary Schmidt Campbell
  • Leverage lost: evolution in the nonprofit arts ecosystem / John Kreidler
  • The age of audience / Lesley Valdes
  • Pictures at an exhibition: conflicting pressures in museums and the display of art / Victoria D. Alexander
  • Making change: museums and public life / Alberta Arthurs
  • Coercive philanthropy / Robert Brustein
  • The humanities, the universities, and public policy / William Bennett
  • The artist as public intellectual / Carol Becker
  • Commencement address: the gift of good work / Ellen McCulloch Lovell Part III: Culture and policy from the local to the global
  • Introduction / Glen Wallach
  • Judy Baca: SPARC-the Social and Public Arts Resource Center / William Cleveland
  • Arts impact studies: a fashionable excess / Bruce A. Seaman
  • Re-presenting the city: arts, culture, and diversity in Philadelphia / Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert
  • Cultural policy options in the contex of globalization / Néstor García Canclini
  • The policy landscape / Susan L. Siegfried
  • The new study and curation of culture / Richard Kurin.