Art from the Swamp: How Washington Bureaucrats Squander Millions on Awful Art

by Bruce Cole

Book Overview

Few Americans are aware that the federal government is the country's largest single patron of art. Every year a group of unelected bureaucrats and congressmen spends millions of taxpayer dollars on monuments, sculptures, buildings, plays, and exhibitions, largely without public knowledge or involvement. Frank Gehry's outlandish memorial to President Eisenhower, an installation that blinks quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt in Morse code at a cash-strapped...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594039968
• ISBN13: 9781594039966
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"