scholarly journals Public Funding and the “Untamed Wilderness” of Victorian Studies

2010 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Russell M. Wyland1
Keyword(s):  
Public Funding ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
National Foundation ◽  
Capitol Hill ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Victorian studies emerged, like many interdisciplinary fields, during the 1950s and 1960s. While scholars today accept the validity of interdisciplinary work, it was not always so, and early issues of Victorian Studies and the Victorian Periodicals Newsletter reflect both scholars’ excitement over the prospect of interdisciplinary work and their hesitation in the face of an “untamed wilderness.” The same forces that gave rise to Victorian studies had their equivalent on Capitol Hill with passage of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965. This essay explores the relationship between the emerging field of Victorian studies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The debates and methodological discussions that shaped the founding of the field left scholars well positioned to take advantage of opportunities offered by the Endowment. NEH-supported projects such as Walter Houghton’s Wellesley Index shaped Victorian studies in profound ways, and Victorian studies, in turn, helped shape the Endowment.

Normative justification for public arts funding: what can we learn from linking arts consumption and arts policy in Israel?

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tal Feder
Keyword(s):  
Public Funding ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Arts Organizations ◽  
Arts Funding ◽  
Arts Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Normative Justification ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article studies the socioeconomics of government public expenditure for the arts and the normative foundations of state intervention in the arts. I pose two interrelated research questions: (a) what is the relationship between the public funding of the arts and their consumption? and (b) what mode of justification and what perception of the place of art in society is reflected in this relationship? Based on the philosophical work of Alan Badiou, I develop a novel conceptual framework to delineate three types of normative justifications for the public funding of arts organizations: romantic, didactic and classical. Using data from the public funding of 92 orchestras, theaters and dance troupes in Israel between 1999 and 2011, I estimate a cross-lagged panel data model to study how arts funding both affects and is affected by the levels of consumption of the organizations’ productions. The results of the study show a complex pattern of different relationships between funding and consumption that accord with the three types of normative justifications for public arts funding.

Database Narrative, Spatial Montage, and the Cultural Transmission of Memory

2013 ◽  
pp. 150-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Aston
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses ways in which the database narrative techniques of virtual media can be used to explore the relationship between real-world oral storytelling and embodied performance in the cultural transmission of memory. It is based on an ongoing collaboration between the author and the historical anthropologist, Wendy James, to develop a multilayered associative narrative, which considers relationships between experience, event, and memory among a displaced community. The work is based on a substantial living archive of photographs, audio, cine, and video recordings collected by Wendy James in the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands from the mid-1960s to the present day. Its critical context relates to the ’sensory turn’ in anthropology and to ’beyond text’ debates within the arts and humanities regarding ways in which we can capture and represent the sensory experiences of the past.

Source Theatre Company and the Mandate of the NEA: a Case Study

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (42) ◽  
pp. 128-134
Author(s):  
Mary C. Resing
Keyword(s):  
Public Funding ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
The Public ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
The University

The controversy in the United States surrounding the funding of ‘offensive‐ and ‘pornographic‐ works by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) has centered on whether or not the organization should espouse a morally conservative outlook in regard to the public funding of artistic works. However, the NEA arguably already pursues conservative policies rooted in its vision of the form, function, and outlook of the arts it exists to serve. The appointment of the actress Jane Alexander as chair of the NEA may have indicated that the organization would become more liberal in its moral stance, but the question remains: can government-supported art be anything but conservative? The following is a case study of one theatre's relationship to the NEA in the context of the Washington, DC, theatre community. The author, Mary C. Resing, is a former business manager of New Playwrights' Theatre in Washington, DC, and a former grant writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently working on her dissertation on the actress-manager Vera Kommissarzhevskaia.

Coda Maintenance, Reconstruction, and Demolition

2019 ◽  
pp. 171-182
Author(s):  
Jonathan Fenderson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Literature ◽  
African American Literature ◽  
Black Arts Movement ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Black Arts ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts

The coda gives a snapshot of three critical institutional arrangements that offer a framework for understanding the end of the Black Arts movement. Each of these three institutions--Howard University’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities; the seminar on the Reconstruction of African-American Literature, co-sponsored by the Modern Language Association and National Endowment for the Humanities; and the FBI’s Counterintelligence Program (and larger surveillance state)--were tied to Fuller’s life and the closing window of opportunity he faced at the end of the movement. More importantly, the coda contends that the presence (or absence) of these institutions in our collective memory help to shape our broader understanding of the Black Arts movement. It not only offers a three-pronged conclusion to the narrative arch of the book, but it also argues that cultural politics played a tremendous role in shaping African American intellectuals’ access to institutional resources.

Report on the Organization and Plans of the Humanities Endowment of the National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities

PMLA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
Robert M. Lumiansky
Keyword(s):  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Potential Significance ◽  
Federal Funds ◽  
White House ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
National Foundation ◽  
The Rose ◽  
State Regional

This year brought forth an event of great potential significance for members of the Modern Language Association, for members of similar organizations in other humanistic disciplines, and possibly for the nation as a whole. On September 29 in the Rose Garden at the White House, President Johnson signed into law an Act creating an agency to be known as the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities. This agency is to provide Federal funds “to complement, assist, and add to” the money provided “by local, State, regional, and private agencies” in support of the Arts and the Humanities.

Science and Humanity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Steane
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Darwinian Evolution ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
To Come ◽  
Science Educators ◽  
The Relationship

This volume offers an in-depth presentation of the structure of science and the nature of the physical world, with a view to showing how it complements and does not replace other types of human activity, such as the arts and humanities, spirituality and religion. The aim is to better inform scientists, science educators, and the general public. Many think that science can and does establish that the natural world is a vast machine, and this is the whole truth of ourselves and our environment. This is wrong. In fact, scientific models employ a rich network of interconnecting concepts, and the overall picture suggests the full validity of further forms of truth-seeking and truth-speaking, such as art, jurisprudence, and the like. In fundamental physics, the equations that describe physical behaviour interact in a subtle symbiotic way with symmetry principles which describe overarching guidelines. The relationship between physics and biology is similar, and so is the relationship between biology and the humanities. Darwinian evolution is an exploratory mechanism which allows richer patterns and truths to come to be expressed; it does not negate or replace those truths. The area of values, of what can or should command our allegiance, requires a different kind of response, a response that is not completely captured by logical argument, but which is central to human life. Religion, when it is understood correctly and done well, is the engagement with the idea that we have a meaningful role to play, and much to learn.

Public Works: NEH, Congress, and the State Humanities Councils

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamil Zainaldin
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Public Works ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
National Foundation ◽  
The Creation

The National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965 is the most ambitious piece of cultural legislation in American history. The story of its creation and evolution is a tangled one that continues to the present day. This essay looks at NEH and NEA in their early years, their relations with Congress, and the process by which NEH fostered the invention of humanities-based “State Committees,” significantly different in concept from NEA’s innovation of “State Arts Agencies.” The circumstances that led to the creation of these grassroots programs ultimately changed NEH itself while popularizing the novel terminology and concept of “public” humanities work. The essay concludes with reflections about the time-bound quality of NEH and the State Humanities Councils and considers their sustainability in a new century.

The Nature of (Arts) Entrepreneurial Action

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-116
Author(s):  
Linda Essig
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Entrepreneurship Training ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Entrepreneurial Action ◽  
The Relationship

There seems little doubt that educators, policymakers, and artists themselves are paying attention to the relationship between creative practice and entrepreneurship. Over 150 US institutions of higher education provide hundreds of offerings related to arts entrepreneurship, ranging from courses to degree programs and guest speakers to robust venture incubation programs. State arts agencies have developed arts entrepreneurship training programs, and the National Endowment for the Arts has thus far initiated three national arts entrepreneurship research labs. Given this interest, this essay examines what it is that artists actually do – the actions they take — in the relationship between entrepreneurship and their creative practice.

scholarly journals Theology and the arts: The Corona crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
John L. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Theological Critique ◽  
The Relationship

Seeking to offer more than just words of comfort in the face of suffering, this paper proposes three additional ways forward for theological reflection during the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) a rediscovery of the language of lament, drawing on the vocabularies of protest movements and the Psalms; (2) a theological critique of the pandemic built on reckoning with the reality of our finitude and the relationship between humanity and the earth; and (3) a re-imagination of the future employing the power of the arts and the imagination for this prophetic task.

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