Patronizing the Arts
Marjorie B. Garber, . . Princeton Univ., $24.95 (234pp) ISBN 978-0-691-12480-3
The title of Garber's erudite, incisive study contains the crux of her persuasive proposal: though financially supported by foundations, corporations and wealthy individuals, the arts are also deemed “nonessential.” These two types of patronizing, Garber argues with wit and aplomb, have led to art's simultaneous devaluation (as “recreational”) and overvaluation (as transcendent). This paradox is not a problem requiring a solution, she says, but rather, an inevitable dialectic. Harvard English professor Garber (
Reviewed on: 07/28/2008
Genre: Nonfiction
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