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Government aid to the arts

Here are entered works on support of the arts by governments. Works on support of the arts by individuals and corporations are entered under Art patronage. Works on government policy toward the arts are entered under Art and state.

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• Subsidization of the Arts: A Survey of Governmental Aid to Music, Art and the Theatre in the Free World (SLID research tract #1; New York: Student League for Industrial Democracy, c1956), by Emmett Groseclose (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Cultural District for Downtown Atlanta (Atlanta: Rearch Atlanta, c2000), by Arthur C. Brooks and Roland Kushner (page images at GSU)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Disrupting Business: Art and Activism in Times of Financial Crisis (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, c2013), ed. by Tatiana Bazzichelli and Geoff Cox (PDF with commentary at data-browser.net)

• A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (3 volumes (2 text; 1 plates); London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1806-1807), by G. Gregory, illust. by Samuel John Neele, Robert Cooper, and Charles Heath
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • plate volume: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (second American edition from the last London edition; New York: Pub. for W.T. Robinson by Collins and Co., 1821-1822), by G. Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lexicon Technicum: or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Explaining Not Only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves (2 volumes; London: Printed for D. Brown et al., 1708-1710), by John Harris
  • Volume 1 (second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Lexicon Technicum: or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Explaining Not Only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves (2 volumes; London: Printed for D. Brown et al., 1708-1710), by John Harris
  • Volume 1 (second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Did We Do That? An Evaluation of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Rural Arts Agency Scheme (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, c1996), by Tess Hurson (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• Supporting Art and Culture: 1001 Questions on Policy, by Alfred De Grazia (HTML at grazian-archive.com)

• Bright Stars: Charting the Impact of the Arts in Rural Minnesota (Minneapolis: McKnight Foundation, c2005), by Carlo M. Cuesta, Dana M. Gillespie, and Padraic Lillis (PDF with commentary at mcknight.org)

• RSA Journal (partial serial archives)
• Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts (2002-) (full serial archives)
• Studies in Arts and Humanities (2015-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of Arts and Ideas (issues online 1983-1999) (partial serial archives)
• Rampike (full serial archives)
• Inflexions (2008-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of the Royal Society of Arts (partial serial archives)
• Art and Letters (reprint of the journal originally published 1917-1920; US access only) (full serial archives)
• The Dollar Magazine (ran for 2 volumes; New York: Wilson and Co., 1841-1842), ed. by Nathaniel Parker Willis and H. Hastings Weld (full serial archives)
• The Knight Errant (partial serial archives)
• The Nation and the Athenaeum (partial serial archives)
• 291 (full serial archives)
• Shadowland (partial serial archives)
• The Atlantic Monthly (partial serial archives)

• What is Art? (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1904), by Leo Tolstoy, ed. by Aylmer Maude (multiple formats at archive.org)

• South African Tradition: A Brief Survey of Culture and Art in the Republic of South Africa (revised edition; New York: Information Service of South Africa, ca. 1968), by South Africa Department of Information (page images at HathiTrust)
• The South African Tradition: A Brief Survey of Culture and Art in the Republic of South Africa (1963), by South African Information Service (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Claude Monet: The Water-Lilies; and Other Writings on Art (Urbana, IL: Windsor and Downs Press; 2017), by Georges Clemenceau, trans. by Bruce Michelson (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Illinois)
• A. Hyatt Mayor: Selected Writings and a Bibliography (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• The Visual Experience; An Introduction To Art (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ca. 1961), by Bates Lowry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Art and Socialism, by William Morris (HTML at marxists.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Son, 1873), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1877), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Spirit (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1923), by Robert Henri, ed. by Margery Ryerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Course of Lectures Delivered at the New York School of Applied Design for Women (New York: Irving Press, 1912), ed. by Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, contrib. by Frank Edwin Elwell, Henry Reuterdahl, Louis R. Metcalfe, H. K. Kevorkian, and Albert Sterner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Creative Will: Studies in the Philosophy and the Syntax of Aesthetics (New York and London: J. Lane, 1916), by Willard Huntington Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'Art et le Geste (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1910), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on Art, and Poems, by Washington Allston (page images at MOA)
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds (Gutenberg text)
• Since Cézanne (ca. 1922), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Paths, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
• An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946), by Maya Deren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• System and Dialectics of Art (New York: Delphic studios, 1937), by John Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• Elements of Art Criticism, by G. W. Samson (page images at MOA)
• The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (London: The New Age Press, 1908), by Bernard Shaw (PDF at modjourn.org)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Signs of Change, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.