Research Catalog

Title

Museums and money : the impact of funding on exhibitions, scholarship, and management / Victoria D. Alexander.

Author

Alexander, Victoria D.

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1996.

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Description

xiii, 167 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Recent controversies over politically sensitive or allegedly pornographic museum exhibitions have called attention to the sources of funding, public and private, of museums and other cultural organizations. Should funders have a say in what gets exhibited by a museum? Would this constitute censorship or merely be a reasonable restraint over the way public or corporate funds are used? While funding for the arts was shifting from individuals to institutions, including the federal government, did the mission and management of museums change? Museums & Money looks at thirty large art museums and how they have been affected by the changing patterns of funding for the arts in America over the past thirty-five years. Full of insights into the world of arts organizations, Victoria Alexander's study raises important cultural questions as well, with far-reaching implications for the way art is defined, produced, and presented in contemporary America.

Series Statement

IU Center on Philanthropy series in governance

Uniform Title

IU Center on Philanthropy series in governance.

Alternative Title

• Impact of funding on exhibitions, scholarship, and management
• Museums & money

Subject

• Art museums > United States > Finance
• Art museums > United States > Management
• Art patronage > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-147) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Museums and money : understanding the effects of external forces on cultural organizations -- From philanthropy to funding : changes in museum patronage -- Pictures at an exhibition : the impact of funding -- From scholarship to management : changes in museums as organizations -- Conclusion: Museums and Mammon?

ISBN

0253332052 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95049863^

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Harvard Library