Art, Public Culture, and the State
ed. by Casey Nelson Blake
- Editor(s)
- Casey Nelson Blake
- Publisher, year
- Washington ; Philidelphia : Woodrow Wilson Center Press : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007
- Scope
- 360 p., illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780812240290
"The Arts of Democracy is an ambitious, well-conceived collection of essays that works through 'the relationship between the arts and public life in modern America.' . . . The essays move with precision between artists and agencies and the Cold War policies that shaped both in national and international contexts. Roughly, the narrative arc of the essays contends that the embrace by Cold War-inspired agencies of abstraction and modernism (and jazz) as evidence of American freedom from Soviet-style tyranny produced a singular moment for U.S. public culture that eventually gave way to hostility from the Left and from the Right that has resulted in a desire for a return to 'tradition' in various forms."—The Journal of American History
- Location
- Cabinet 28 - 2 Art in Public Space ; Theory
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
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