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Too Much Art

Once again, the budgets of the agencies that support the arts are to be cut. Meanwhile, costs in the arts are going up. But one continues to read and hear…

1988

by Eric Bogosian,

The function of art

A Surfeit of Art

by Jacques Barzun,

And why government need not encourage it

People for poets

by Harper’s Staff,

America’s passion for culture

by Jacques Barzun,

And the argument still goes on

by Robert Swain Peabody,

The easy chair

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

The creative spirit and the American public

by Rollo Walter Brown,

The creative spirit and art

by Rollo Walter Brown,

Salvaging the creators

by Rollo Walter Brown,

The menace of infant genius

by Ben Ray Redman,

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Too Much Art

1988

A Surfeit of Art

People for poets

America’s passion for culture

And the argument still goes on

The easy chair

The creative spirit and the American public

The creative spirit and art

Salvaging the creators

The menace of infant genius

June 1921

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