Journal article
Artistic scarcity in an age of material abundance: President Lyndon Johnson, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Great Society liberalism
- Abstract:
-
1965 saw President Lyndon Johnson push an incredible number of reform bills through Congress as part of his quest for a Great Society – including legislation to create a National Endowment for the Arts (the federal agency that provides grants to artists and arts organizations in the United States). Public confidence was riding high, the economy was good, and Americans demonstrated a remarkable faith in the capacity of the federal government to solve domestic problems. And yet in this age of a...
Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Authors
Funding
+ Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
More from this funder
Funding agency for:
Heath, K
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Intellect Publisher's website
- Journal:
- European Journal of American Culture Journal website
- Volume:
- 36
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 5-22
- Publication date:
- 2017-03-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-02-25
- DOI:
- ISSN:
-
1466-0407
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
pubs:685619
- UUID:
-
uuid:648dbe27-79fa-4a83-abef-64a4f656619d
- Local pid:
- pubs:685619
- Source identifiers:
-
685619
- Deposit date:
- 2017-03-14
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- K Heath
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
-
Author(s) retain copyright; published by Intellect under license.
This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Intellect at: 10.1386/ejac.36.1.5_1
Metrics
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record