Author: McCullough, David

Publication Year: 1994

Media Type: Report

Summary:

The seventh annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy was presented by the American Council for the Arts, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Eisenhower Theater, Washington, DC, April 11, 1994. The lecturer, David McCullough, discussed the importance of education in the arts as well as other disciplines, and the role of education in his own early development.

Abstract:

The seventh annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy was presented by the American Council for the Arts, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Eisenhower Theater, Washington, DC, April 11, 1994. The lecturer, David McCullough, discussed the importance of education in the arts as well as other disciplines, and the role of education in his own early development, stating, "I can hardly overstress the importance of this, that art, science, music, literature, history, the world of books, were joined, all together, to be taken as parts of the same whole, all under one roof." (p. 5)

Biographer, historian, lecturer, teacher, David McCullough is the author of six widely acclaimed books, including Truman, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. His first book, The]ohnstown Flood, published in 1968, was followed by The Great Bridge (1972), an epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, which won the National Book Award for history; Mornings on Horseback (1981), the young life of Theodore Roosevelt, which won the National Book Award for biography; and Brave Companions (1992), essays on heroic figures past and present. To millions of television viewers, Mr. McCullough is known as the host of the PBS series "American Experience" and as the narrator of such distinguished documentaries as "LBJ," "The Donner Party" and "The Civil War." He is the winner of the Charles Frankel Prize for his contributions to the humani­ties, the National Book Foundation Award for Distin­guished Contribution to American Letters, and twice winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, given by the Society of American Historians. He lives in West Tisbury, Mass., and is an avid Sunday painter.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Funding, Federal, Arts Education