The Origins of the Arts Council Movement

Philanthropy and Policy
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-46162-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3997 g

Reihe: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research

This important new book offers an intellectual history of the ‘arts council’ policy model, identifying and exploring the ideas embedded in the model and actions of intellectuals, philanthropists and wealthy aesthetes in its establishment in the mid-twentieth century. The book examines the history of arts advocacy for national arts policies in the UK, Canada and the USA, offering an interdisciplinary approach that combines social and intellectual history, political philosophy and literary analysis. The book has much to offer academics, cultural policy and management students, artists, arts managers, arts advocates, cultural policymakers and anyone interested in the history and current moment of public arts funding in the West. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Upchurch, Anna Rosser

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. What is the ‘arts council movement’?.- 1.Philanthropists and Policy Advisors.- 2.The Ideologies of English Intellectualism and of American Philanthropy.- 3.Arts policy during the second world war in the United Kingdom.- 4.The Arts Council of Great Britain: Keynes’s Legacy.- 5.The Canadian Clerisy and the Canada Council.- 6.The Local Arts Council Movement in the United States.- Conclusion 

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Rosser Upchurch is Lecturer in Cultural Policy at the University of Leeds, UK. After a career in arts management and policy in the United States working for a range of publicly and privately funded organisations, she earned a PhD in cultural policy studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is co-editor of Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Utility and Markets (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), with Eleonora Belfiore, and her research interests include the historiography and theory of cultural policy, the history of ideas about the arts and humanities in society, including issues of ‘value’ and ‘impact’, and histories of women activists in cultural organisations.