The Unfulfilled Promise: Public Subsidy of the Arts in America

Abstract

Preface 1. The Problem 2. What Are the Stakes? The Value of Artistic Experience * Art Experience and the Problem of a Mass Society * Art Experience as a Catalyst for Social Change * Art Patronage as Social Capital * The Philosophical Conflict 3. Elite Domination of the National Endowment for the Arts A Theoretical Formulation of Agency Cooptation * Budget Analyses * The Hanks Years * Legislative Oversight * Report of the Surveys and Investigations Staff * Conclusion * A Word on the Reagan Administration 4. State Arts Agencies The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts * Characteristics of State Arts Councils * (Washington, Texas, Wyoming, Ohio, North Carolina, Louisiana, New Mexico, Indiana, Idaho, California) * Concluding Observation 5. Achieving Cultural Democracy Aid to the Creative Artist * Fostering Community Arts * Some Conclusions Notes Index