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    The Need to Give: The Patron and the Arts » Read Now

    by Andrew Sinclair. 210 pgs.

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    ...that we call primitive art. Patronage derived from the exercise...hanging gardens of Babylon. Patronage developed the leading art of Mesopotamia, the music...His first act...
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    Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy (Part II "Politics, Patronage, and Public Art") » Read Now

    by Harriet F. Senie, Sally Webster. 285 pgs.

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    ...values. Part II, Politics, Patronage, and Public Art, discusses the motivation...era of significant federal patronage of art. 11 The WPA/FAP Works...following part...
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    Democracy and the Arts: The Role of Participation (Chap. 8 "Participation in the Arts: Mid-Twentieth Century America") » Read Now

    by Terri Lynn Cornwell. 214 pgs.

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    This definitive text explores the complex relationship between participation in the arts and participation in politics in America. It traces the American perspective on the arts through the evolution of democratic theory and the historical link with participation in the arts. How the arts affect a...
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    Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts: Studies in Mission and Constraint » Read Now

    by Paul J. DiMaggio. 378 pgs.

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    Taking the dichotomy of nonprofit "high culture" and for-profit "popular culture" into consideration, this volume assesses the relationship between social purpose in the arts and industrial organization. DiMaggio brings together some of the best works in several disciplines that focus on the...
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    America's Commitment to Culture: Government and the Arts » Read Now

    by Kevin V. Mulcahy, Margaret Jane Wyszomirski. 242 pgs.

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    ...66 3 Federal Arts Patronage in the New Deal , Lawrence D...Support , 77 WPA Art Programs: The Attack , 83...Piper. Causes and Consequences of Art Patronage . Milton C...
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    Remodel the NEA to Create Patronage, in Insight on the News » Read Now

    by Frederick E. Turner. 3 pgs.

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    ...opposed to those that support new art. State patronage works well at maintaining classical...The track record of state patronage of new art is more questionable. We...
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    The Romanesque Revival, Mural Painting, and Protestant Patronage in America, in The Art Bulletin » Read Now

    by Kathleen Curran. 30 pgs.

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    ...Painting, and Protestant Patronage in America. by...was completed in 1877, art critics recognized that...the history of American art and architecture had...Arts. Due to...
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    Gift Exchange and Art Collecting: Padre Sebastiano Resta's Drawing Albums, in The Art Bulletin » Read Now

    by Genevieve Warwick. 17 pgs.

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    ...phenomenon throughout the history of art patronage, gift exchange nonetheless has...examination of gift exchange within art patronage, this paper seeks to move the...of...
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    Mothers and Sons: Two Paintings for San Bonaventura in Early Modern Rome, in Renaissance Quarterly » Read Now

    by Carolyn Valone. 25 pgs.

    ...wealth to commission art and architecture...religion. 2 Their patronage was neither surprising...Collegio Romano." Art Bulletin 70: 451-77...1994. "Piety and Patronage in...
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    Laurentian Patronage in the Palazzo Vecchio: The Frescoes of the Sala Dei Gigli, in The Art Bulletin » Read Now

    by Melinda Hegarty. 22 pgs.

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    ...art.(183) Lorenzos principal art-patronage activities - cultural diplomacy...included in the following volumes: Patronage, Art, and Society in Renaissance Italy...
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    What Did the Renaissance Patron Buy?, in Renaissance Quarterly » Read Now

    by Creighton E. Gilbert. 59 pgs.

    ...Bernard Berenson(1) Patronage study is an active...of current work in art history. A 1994 issue...social history ("Patronage studies typically...of a major work of art, or...
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    Color and the Exchange of Ideas between Patron and Artist in Renaissance Italy, in The Art Bulletin » Read Now

    by Thomas McGrath. 11 pgs.

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    ...Artists, Patrons and Advisors in the Italian Renaissance," in Patronage in the Renaissance, ed. G. F. Lytle and S. Orgel (Princeton...thorough discussion of coloristic...
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    The Water Mill and Northern Song Imperial Patronage of Art, Commerce, and Science, in The Art Bulletin » Read Now

    by Heping Liu. 30 pgs.

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    ...Northern Song imperial patronage of art, commerce, and science...63) Suns motives for art patronage can be likened to those...Cinderella story in Chinese art. This study...
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    Art and Patronage in Late Medieval England » Read Now

    by Janet Backhouse. 9 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Art and patronage in late medieval England...explores the varied roles of patronage in the art of the later Middle Ages...these particular works of art of their practical...
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    Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage » Read Now

    by Brian W. Dippie. 554 pgs.

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    ...0-8032-1683-1 alk. paper 1. Art patronage -- United States -- History...role as a patron of the arts. Art patronage reeked of incense and candles...case study in the...

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