Artistic Production and Social Control

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Artistic Production and Social Control

The author examines the relationship between artists and the social control of the state when the state supports them. He looks at the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in the 1970s-1980s. Explicit censorship, he shows, is not necessary because of implicit control. Organizational structure, implied threats, self-censorship, concern for continued funding, enforced isolation of controversy, and conventions of what is and is not done keep the implicit censorship out of public view. Finally, the author examines the ways in which an artist who is employed by the government often comes to serve the ideological needs of that government.

The author examines the relationship between artists and the social control of the state when the state supports them. He looks at the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s and the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) in the 1970s-1980s.
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Dubin, Steven C.
December, 1985
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