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The National Endowment for the Arts was created during the term of President Lyndon B. Johnson under the general auspices of the Great Society.According to historian Karen Patricia Heath, "Johnson personally was not much interested in the acquisition of knowledge, cultural or otherwise, for its own sake, nor did he have time for art appreciation or meeting with artists."
Nancy Hanks (December 31, 1927 – January 7, 1983) was an American arts administrator and art historian. [1] She was the second chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), appointed by President Richard M. Nixon and served from 1969 to 1977, continuing her service under President Gerald R. Ford .
Neuroarthistory is a term coined by Professor John Onians, an art historian at the University of East Anglia in 2005. Neuroarthistory is an approach that concerns the neurological study of artists, both living and dead.
And in its nearly 50-year history, the NEA has never received more than $176 million in a single annual budget. ... The Argument Against Funding Art Established in 1965 to provide public funding ...
The rediscovered art and writings of ancient Greece offered an alternative tradition of nudity as symbolic of innocence and purity which could be understood in terms of the state of man "before the fall". Subsequently, norms and behaviors surrounding nudity in life and in works of art diverged during the history of individual societies. [107]
National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, 524 U.S. 569 (1998), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act, as amended in 1990, (20 U.S.C. § 954(d)(1)), was facially valid, as it neither inherently interfered with First Amendment rights nor violated constitutional vagueness principles.
This is a chronological list of periods in Western art history. An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist , groups of artists or art movement . Ancient Classical art
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) was an advisory committee to the President of the United States on cultural issues.It works directly with the White House and the three primary cultural agencies: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), as well as other federal ...