The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State
- ISBN-10
- 0812240294
- ISBN-13
- 9780812240290
- Category
- Art and state
- Pages
- 388
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Author
- Casey Nelson Blake
Description
Written by some of the most respected and accomplished scholars working in their fields, this volume illuminates the often contradictory impulses that have shaped the historical intersection of the arts, public culture, and the state in modern America.
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