The Arts of Democracy

Casey N. Blake is Professor of History and American Studies at Columbia University.

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.

List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Public Culture ReconsideredPART I. COMMERCIAL CULTURE AS PUBLIC CULTURE1. Festival Culture, American Style—Neil Harris2. Norman Rockwell, Public Artis—Michele H. BogartPART II. CULTURAL POLICY AND THE STATE3. Culture and the State in America—Michael Kammen4. The Happy Few—en Masse: Franco-American Comparisons in Cultural Democratization—Vera L. Zolberg5. Exporting America: The U.S. Propaganda Offensive, 1945-1959—Laura A. Belmonte6. The Goodwill Ambassador: Duke Ellington and Black Worldliness—Penny M. Von Eschen7. A Modernist Vision: The Origins and Early Years of the National Endowment for the Arts' Visual Arts Program—Donna M. Binkiewicz8. Between Civics and Politics: The Modernist Moment in Federal Public Art—Casey Nelson BlakePART III. THE ARTS AND CIVIC CULTURE AFTER MODERNISM9. The Swirl of Image and Sound: On the Latest Version of Antirealism—Kenneth Cmiel10. Public Attitudes toward Cultural Authority and Cultural Diversity in Higher Education and the Arts—Paul DiMaggio and Bethany Bryson11. "Subtle, Intangible, and Non-Quantifiable": Aesthetics, Law, and Speech in Public Space—Leslie Prosterman12. The Public Display of Religion—Sally M. PromeyContributorsIndex