Author: Legters, Lyman H.

Publication Year: 1980

Media Type: Report

Summary:

At the stage when the Open Forum series took place, the criticism of government and its arts policies was mainly of that sort, a vague uneasiness.

Abstract:

At the stage when the Open Forum series took place, the criticism of government and its arts policies was mainly of that sort, a vague uneasiness. It was not an academic gathering, so there was little discussion of democratic theory or of the sociology of professions. But it was planned to include artists, officials, humanists, and ordinary citizens; on the assumption, one justified in the event, that they would at least listen to each other. The public discourse that has ensued since then, precipitated at least in part by those six public discussions, has taken on a rather more definite character, revolving, as those early discussions could only intimate - precisely around the two problematics adumbrated above: the status of artists as professionals in our society and the democratic requirement of accountability in the allocation of public resources.
(p. 6)

CONTENTS
Introduction: The nature of the problem.
Government and the arts: The issues of public policy.
Government and the arts: improving the relationship.
Appendix: 1. Selected bibliography.
Appendix: 2. Agenda of each Open Forum: 
                         1. Government responsibility to the arts. 
                         2. The artist's responsibility to the public.
                         3. Between artist and audience: the critic's role.
                         4. Public and private financing of the arts.
                         5. Professionals and amateurs in the arts.
                         6. The arts in the community.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Funding