Author: Mulcahy, Kevin V.

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Book

Summary:

The author attempts to provide an intellectual, political and ideological context for addressing the recent attempts to reduce public support for culture.

Abstract:

The author attempts to provide an intellectual, political and ideological context for addressing the recent attempts to reduce public support for culture.

The concluding chapter by Kevin Mulcahy evaluates arts policy in light of the Reagan administration's drastic budget cuts. It brings together several of the issues discussed throughout the book as many of the assumptions underlying public culture have been seriously challenged. (p. 6).

CONTENTS
Why the cuts?
The anti-aesthetics of the intellectuals.
The Hit List.
The conservative Kulturkampf.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Community Development