BOOK

Good & plenty : the creative successes of American arts funding

Cowen, Tyler

2006

Overview

\"In this book, Tyler Cowen argues why the U.S. way of funding the arts, while largely indirect, results not in the terrible and the small but in Good and Plenty - and how it could result in even more and better.\" \"Few would deny that America produces and consumes art of a quantity and quality comparable to that of any country. But is this despite or because of America's meager direct funding of the arts relative to European countries? Overturning the conventional wisdom of this question, Cowen argues that American art thrives through an ingenious combination of small direct subsidies and immense indirect subsidies such as copyright law and tax policies that encourage nonprofits and charitable giving. This decentralized and even somewhat accidental - but decidedly not laissez-faire - system results in arts that are arguably more creative, diverse, abundant, and politically unencumbered than that of Europe. Good and Plenty is essential reading for anyone concerned about the arts or their funding.\"--Jacket.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Aesthetics Economic aspects. / Art and state United States. / Federal aid to the arts United States. / Culture Economic aspects. / Beeldende kunsten. / Overheidssteun. / Cultuurbeleid. / èOffentliche Fèorderung / Kunst / Art and state. / Cultural policy. / Federal aid to the arts. / United States Cultural policy. / USA. / United States.
• ISBN: 0691120420, 9780691120423, 9780691146263, 0691146268