The Plague of American Art

Every day we see art whether it is a pattern, sculpture, or even a picture. Art is everywhere. For artists to show their work they would go under the government process of the NEA. This program is wonderful on what they do with art. The government funding of art through the NEA is beneficial which helps art programs increase with money donations, the right to express your freedom, and lastly to show the public what they are wanting to see.

The government has no right to limit content in such a way. It is the equivalent of burning books in a library. The only time such censorship should be allowed is when it is almost universally agreed upon that something is too vulgar or profane for the public.

Throughout history there have been many public funding’s that contributed to the world of art. Whether anyone realizes it or not, artists have a lot of responsibilities to try and please the public when they are working for the public. Also, there are numerous regional issues that greatly influence decisions about publicly funded art. Art is very important when forming a sense of nation character, therefore, we should support the public funding of art in America. Art is an important part of society and it can also be a very valuable part of our everyday lives. However, there are many positive and negative effects when it comes to the public funding of art in America. Supporters claim that subsidizing the arts pays for itself. These supporters suggest that the arts are what drive the economy of businesses within a community.

Having posted this on World-Post, which is a news and blog website created through a partnership between Liberal news aggregator Huffington Post and a nonpartisan powerhouse, the Berggruen Institute on Governance, allows for this essay to not get exposed to the pro STEM or anti-arts parties. Sparking up the discussion of reintroducing the arts back into everyday society’s curriculum, you need to direct this essay towards both the audience, and the individuals who have the power to make this change. If Ma bring up a primarily pro-art focused paper, and only shares this piece of writing with mostly fellow supports of the arts, Ma misses the “equilibrium” that he spoke so highly about. If we can’t have both sides of the spectrum be able to analyze and discuss the ideas presented in this paper, then it’s going to be close to impossible to enact any change within society to reintroduce more of the arts back into

My favorite era is the Contemporary Era. In history, the Contemporary Era is a time that had profound changes the modernized the identity of the development of many new cities. In the early modern era, people and cities grew through the spirit of modernism throughout all over the world. People were going away with cultural traditions and starting a new civilization future for the twentieth century. The founding on new discoveries cause new foundation trends to be expressed with a new understanding in believing and living.

The NEA is a federal government agency with the initial goal help people learn to appreciate and give their attention to art by putting it somewhere they could not ignore it, in the public. The NEA still serves as an organization today, although it has focused itself to giving Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts and exercise their

Does Pop Art form a critique of post-WWII society and culture or is it a celebration of high

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the federal government specifically designed to support and enhances the art community for minority groups. The NEA was founded in 1965 and has controlled the art community ever since. This has aided in censoring works of supposedly obscene and controversial art. The elimination of the NEA, or making it a private organization, would free much needed public tax dollars to go to more important parts of the nations budgets, as well as open the art communities up for the freedom to exhibit the controversial pieces of art work the NEA deems inappropriate.

The National Endowment for the Arts was created by an act of the U.S Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government of the U.S. Congress created the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) to support and fund projects displaying artistic excellence. The grant money that the NEA receives comes from American taxpayers, furthermore that money has been used to fund art and more that are labeled “controversial”. In March of 2017, the Trump administration made a proposal to eliminate federal funding for the program. The NEA is a wonderful program that helps bring light to controversial subjects, creates regulations, and free speech.

In 1961, Kennedy appointed a Special Consultant on the Arts and made public support for the arts an official policy agenda (Bauerlin and Grantham, p. 6). In 1963 President’s Advisory Council on the Arts was created (p. 7). After President Kennedy’s assassination, President Johnson continued to support Kennedy’s vision of founding a federal arts agency. The next year Johnson signed the National Arts and Cultural Development Act of 1964. This created a 24-member council to “recommend ways to maintain and increase the cultural resources of the nation and to encourage and develop greater appreciation and enjoyment of the arts by its citizens” (p. 15). The Arts Endowment started its first fiscal year with a budget of $2.5 million and a staff of twelve, and its first grant recipient was the American Ballet Theater (p. 19). They provided support to both classical forms of art (such as ballet and opera) and emerging art and art trends (such as pop art and jazz); and provided funding for both established and up-and-coming artists (p. 22). Furthermore, the committee provided support for art education, and archival and preservation efforts such as the American Film Institute (“AFI”) (p. 23).

From past censorship, America has had different guidelines on opinions of censorship. This may relate to different preferences and viewpoints from various types of people. As in the past censorship may not be on the citizen’s choice, it may have been on the government’s decision. This did not meet certain guidelines for citizens of America, as an example, the puritans wanted to “purify” themselves and the protestant church. For the puritans to successfully purify themselves they

In Montana, the number of artists compared to the number of their civilian labor force is quite comparable. In 2010, a study showed that there were 8,780 artists, 7,450 citizens employed in the information industry, and 6,862 citizens employed in the mining, quarrying, oil industries, and gas industries. As you can see artists make up the majority of their population, even with the economic hardships that many of us face. Because there is high percentage of the Montana labor force that consist of artists, the Montana Arts Council designed a study to see how much artists help and improve their economy. In this study they estimated a total economic impact of over $233 million and 4,273 jobs. Not only do the artists of Montana generate jobs in their own state, but they also generate jobs in other countries. The impact that the arts have had on Montana is significant. The presence of artwork and the quality of life it has brought have increased their economic growth and it continues to improve every day (Montana Department of Labor & Industry). Due to the support of the NEA and its ability to keep funding going to states like Montana, the industry is starting to grow. More and more, art is changing and improving communities and states all over. Without the revenue from the NEA our government would

Art education initially began in the United States around the nineteenth century to prepare future workers to be able to “design competitive industrial goods” (Chira, 1993). Susan Chira explains in her article “As Schools Trim Budgets, The Arts Lose Their Place.” that in 1989 a nationwide survey conducted by the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana reports that since 1962 the amount of time devoted to teaching art in school had declined as well as the amount of full time art teachers. Throughout the sixties until the early eighties the nation was dealing with a major economic crisis. Most notably was the Great Inflation of the 1970's along with New York's 1970 Fiscal Crisis which greatly affected the art scene in New York that was at the time the place to be if you were an artist.

The subject of censorship is a very controversial one, especially the banning of books. Many people believe they must protect themselves and others from the "evils" of many classic books and works of art because they can be deemed "indecent" in one way or another. Many believe that this is absurd and censorship in its current form is a violation of our First Amendment right to free speech. Personally, I align myself with the latter, however I do feel there are occasions where censorship is justifiable.

A majority of the nation, up until recent visual and performance art legislation was proposed in congress, hadn't been made aware that they, the taxpayers, were supporting any form of art. It wasn't until the recent attacks on the NEA, an agency designed to fund grants to certain projects, that taxpayers paid attention. The government's funding of the arts is a highly controversial issue that argues some of the most basic philosophical questions regarding the subjective and objective views of aesthetic value.