Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America

by Michael Brenson

Book Overview

Visionaries and Outcasts documents and analyzes, from hopeful creation to bitter end, the most ambitious experiment in artistic funding in American history. Through the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts in 1965, this country provided financial support for visual artists without exerting the stringent controls that patronage in the past required. That all ended thirty years later, as the NEA's funding for individual artists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565846249
• ISBN13: 9781565846241
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"