Who's to Pay for the Arts?: The International Search for Models of Arts Support

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Who's to Pay for the Arts?: The International Search for Models of Arts Support

Review by John Kreidler of the book Who's to Pay for the Arts?: the International Search for Models of Arts Support [New York, NY: American Council for the Arts, 1989, 126 p.].

[This book] is a collection of four essays examining governmental support for the arts, with particular emphasis upon Canada and the . The book is based upon papers presented in June 1987 at a seminar organized by the American Council for the Arts.

The authors note that the emphasis on artistic freedom found in most Western countries results in some measure of arm's length in the operation of fine arts support programs, although many Western governments...find the Engineer role attractive in constructing a commercially viable arts industry in which the profit motive, or capitalist realism, plays an ideological role analogous to socialist realism. The Canadian government between 1978 and 1984 is cited as an example of a Western state shifting toward the Engineer model through dramatically increased direct and indirect funding of end product commercial arts compared to significant decline in support for the research and development-oriented fine arts.

[This book] is a collection of four essays examining governmental support for the arts, with particular emphasis upon Canada and the . The book is based upon papers presented in June 1987 at a seminar organized by the American Council for the Arts.
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Cummings, Milton C. Jr. and Schuster, J. Mark Davidson
December, 1989
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