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The Economics of Art and Culture
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 37.00This is the first book to cover not only the economics of the fine arts and performing arts, but also public policy toward the arts at federal, state, and local levels in the United States. The second edition offers greater coverage of the international arts sector. more...
Arts Money
University of Minnesota Press 1985; US$ 60.00A guide to fiscal solvency for nonprofit arts organizations, which covers fundraising, alternative organizational structures, tax exemption, earned income, grants and gifts, cooperative efforts to save money, and the impact of technology. more...
Arts and Culture in the Metropolis
RAND Corporation 2007; US$ 9.95The nonprofit arts currently face an environment that challenges the way the arts have grown and raises the prospect of future consolidation. Cognizant of these problems, William Penn Foundation and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance asked RAND to examine the condition of Philadelphia's arts and culture sector and recommend actions to ensure... more...
Cultivating Demand for the Arts
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95Examines what it means to cultivate demand for the arts, why it is important to do so, how it can be done though broad-based arts learning, and what state arts agencies and other policymakers in both the arts and education can do to make it happen. more...
State Arts Policy
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95Projects what the future likely holds for state arts agencies and for state arts policy if current trends and current strategies for addressing economic, political, and demographic challenges continue. more...
Multiculturalism and Public Arts Policy
ABC-CLIO 1993; US$ 112.95The idea of public support for the arts is being challenged. Multiculturalism has been proposed as a worthy and necessary goal of public arts policy; whether or not it should be is explored for the first time in this book. Issues of cultural pluralism, the relations of art and culture, justice and affirmative action, and artistic value are presented... more...
Art in Public
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 24.00Presents a vigorous case for the arts, arguing for their crucial political, cultural and economic contributions to civil society. more...
Reflections on Cultural Policy
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 48.95This book looks at the roles various world views have played in generating cultural policies at various times in Western history. Evan Alderson's introduction places the work within its social, political and historical framework. Robin Blaser addresses the problem of how we can begin to locate a responsible cultural position at the present time.... more...
Franklin Furnace & the Spirit of the Avant-Garde
Intellect 2010; US$ 20.00Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts organization whose mission is to preserve, document, and present works of avant-garde art by emerging artists - particularly those whose works may be vulnerable due to institutional neglect or politically unpopular content. Over more than thirty years, Franklin Furnace has exhibited works by hundreds... more...









