This
is a comprehensive bibliography of books on government funding of the
arts.
It is updated regularly. If you notice that important materials are
missing,
please let me know. 
7/4/2005
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This
is a comprehensive bibliography of books on government funding of the
arts.
It is updated regularly. If you notice that important materials are
missing,
please let me know. 7/4/2005
Alexander, Jane. Command Performance: An Actress in the Theater of Politics. New York: Public Affairs, 2000.
Arian, Edward. The Unfulfilled Promise: Public Subsidy of the Arts in America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.
Balfe, Judith Huggins. Paying the Piper: Causes and Consequences of Art Patronage. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Benedict, Stephen, ed. Public Money & the Muse: Essays on Government Funding for the Arts. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991.
Berman, Ronald. Culture & Politics. Lanhan, MD: University Press of America, 1984.
Biddle, Livingston. Our Government
and
the Arts: A Perspective from the Inside. NY: American Council for
the
Arts, 1988.
Binkiewicz,
Donna M. Federalizing the Muse:
United States Arts Policy and the National Endowment for the Arts,
1965-1980. Chapel HIll: The
University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Bolton, Richard, ed. Culture Wars: Documents from the Recent Controversies in the Arts. New York: New Press, 1992.
Bradford, Gigi, Mmichael Gary, and Glenn Wallach, editors. The Politics of Culture: Policy Perspectives for Individuals, Institutions, and Communities. New York: The New Press, 2000.
Brenson, Michael. Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America. New York: The New Press, 2001.
Brustein, Robert. Cultural Calisthenics: Writings on Race, Politics, and Theatre. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998.
Buchwalter, Andrew, ed. Culture & Democracy: Social and Ethical Issues in Public Support for the Arts andHumanities. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
Burt, Richard, ed. The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
Bustard, Bruce I. A New Deal for the Arts. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1997. [exhibition catalog: available through University of Washington Press]
Childs, Elizabeth C., ed. Suspended License: Censorship and the Visual Arts. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. [See especially, Peter F. Spooner and Steven C. Dubin]
Cowen, Tyler. In Praise of Commercial Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. [See especially p. 36-40, 199-210.]
Danto, Arthur C. After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Danto, Arthur C. Playing With the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Downs, Donald Alexander. The New Politics of Pornography. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Dubin, Steven C. Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Dubin, Steven C. Bureaucratizing the Muse: Public Funds and the Cultural Worker. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Dworkin, Ronald. A Matter of Principle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. [See especially "Can a Liberal State Support Art?" pp. 221-233.]
Edelman, Murray. From Art to Politics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Fish, Stanley. There's No Such Thing as Free Speech. . . and it's a good thing too. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Fiss, Owen M. The Irony of Free Speech. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. [Especially Chapter 2, "Art and the Activist State"]
Fiss, Owen M. Liberalism Divided: Freedom of Speech and the Many Uses of State Power. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. [Especially Chapter 5, "State Activism and State Censorship"]
Frohnmayer, John. Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
Gilbert, Sylvie, ed. Arousing Sensation: A Case Study of Controversy Surrounding Art and the Erotic. Banff, alberta, Canada: Banff Centre Press, 1999.
Globerman, Steven. Culture, Governments and Markets: Public Policy and the Culture Industries. Vancouver, BC, Canada: The Fraser Institute, 1987.
Gurstein, Rochelle. The Repeal of Reticence: A History of America's Cultural and Legal Struggles over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996.
Harris, Jonathan. Federal Art and National Culture: The Politics of Identity in New Deal America. Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Heins, Marjorie. Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars. New York: The New Press, 1998. [See especially Chapter 6, 1998 Revised Edition]
Hughes, Robert. Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Hunt, Lynn, ed. The Invention of Pornography. New York: Zone Books, 1993.
Hunter, James Davison. Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America. New York: Basic Books, 1991. [See especially Chapter 9, "Media and the Arts."]
Inde, Vilis R. Art in the Courtroom. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. (See Chapter 3 & 5.)
Jarvik, Laurence, London, Herbert I., and Cooper, James F., eds. The National Endowments: A Critical Symposium. Los Angeles, CA: Second Thoughts Books (Center for the Study of Popular Culture), 1995.
Levy, Alan Howard. Government and the Arts: Debates over Federal Support of the Arts in America from George Washington to Jesse Helms. Lanham, MD: University Press of American, 1997.
Margolis, Michael, ed. Free Expression, Public Support, and Censorship: Examining Government's Role in the Arts in Canada and the United States. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc., 1994.
Marquis, Alice Goldfarb. Art Lessons: Learning from the Rise and Fall of Public Arts Funding. New York: BasicBooks (HarperCollins), 1995.
Melzer, Arthur M., Weinberger, Jerry, and Zinman, M. Richard., eds. Democracy & the Arts. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. [essays by Robert Brustein, Arthur C. Danto, John Rockwell, and others]
Mitchell, W.J.T., ed. Art and the Public Sphere. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Mulcahy, Kevin V. and C. Richard Swaim, eds. Public Policy and the Arts. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1982.
Netzer, Dick. The Subsidized Muse: Public Support for the Arts in the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
Pankratz, David B., and Morris, Valerie B., eds. The Future of the Arts: Public Policy and Arts Research. New York: Praeger, 1990.
Peter, Jennifer A. and Crosier, Louis M., eds. The Cultural Battlefield: Art Censorship & Public Funding. Gilsum, NH: Avocus Publishing, Inc., 1995.
Post, Robert C., ed. Censorship and Silencing: Practices of Cultural Regulation (Issues & Debates). Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum Publications, 1998. Introduction: Censorship and Silencing, by Robert C. Post
Schauer, Frederick F. Free
speech:
A philosophical enquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1982.
Schauer, Frederick F. The Law of
Obscenity.
Washington, DC: The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 1976.
Schwartz, David T. Art, Education, and the Democratic Commitment: A Defense of State Support for the Arts. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
Smith, Ralph A. and Ronald Berman, eds. Public Policy and the Aesthetic Interest. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Steiner, Wendy. The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Straight, Michael Whitney. Twigs for an Eagle's Nest: Government and the Arts, 1965-1978. Devon Press, 1979.
Sunstein, Cass R. Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech. New York: The Free Press, 1995. [See especially Chapter 7, "More Hard Cases: Pornography, Government Arts Funding and Corporate Speech"]
Sunstein, Cass R. The Partial Constitution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. [See especially "Governmentally Funded Speech" pp. 308-315.]
Twitchell, James B. Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
Van Dyke, Jan. Modern Dance in a Postmodern World: An Analysis of Federal Arts Funding and Its Impact on the Field of Modern Dance. Reston, VA: National Dance Association, 1992.
Wallis, Brian; Weems, Marianne; Yenawine, Philip, editors. Art Matters: How the culture wars changed America. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
Wyszomirski, Margaret Jane, ed. Congress and the Arts: A Precarious Alliance? New York: American Council for the Arts, 1987.
Yudof, Mark G. When Government Speaks: Politics, Law, and Government Expression in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.
Zeigler, Joseph Wesley. Arts in Crisis: The National Endowment for the Arts Versus America. A Cappella Books, 1994.
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