The Origins Of The Arts Council Movement: Philanthropy And Policy (new Directions In Cultural Policy Research)
by Anna Rosser Upchurch /
2016 / English / PDF
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This important new book offers an intellectual history of the ‘arts
council’ policy model, identifying and exploring the ideas embedded
in the model and actions of intellectuals, philanthropists and
wealthy aesthetes in its establishment in the mid-twentieth
century. The book examines the history of arts advocacy for
national arts policies in the UK, Canada and the USA, offering an
interdisciplinary approach that combines social and intellectual
history, political philosophy and literary analysis. The book has
much to offer academics, cultural policy and management students,
artists, arts managers, arts advocates, cultural policymakers and
anyone interested in the history and current moment of public arts
funding in the West.
This important new book offers an intellectual history of the ‘arts
council’ policy model, identifying and exploring the ideas embedded
in the model and actions of intellectuals, philanthropists and
wealthy aesthetes in its establishment in the mid-twentieth
century. The book examines the history of arts advocacy for
national arts policies in the UK, Canada and the USA, offering an
interdisciplinary approach that combines social and intellectual
history, political philosophy and literary analysis. The book has
much to offer academics, cultural policy and management students,
artists, arts managers, arts advocates, cultural policymakers and
anyone interested in the history and current moment of public arts
funding in the West.
