Alice Goldfarb Marquis

Illustrated to convey the style and sensibility of the 1930s, this volume celebrates the events and personalities of the 1930s and the birth of American mass culture

The Birth of Modern Times, 1929-1939

Hopes and Ashes

Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg~ISBN 0-87846-701-7 U.S. $35.00 / Clothbound, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 336 pgs / 35 b&w. ~Item / June / Nonfiction and Criticism Ms. Marquis has done a superlative job of setting the bare facts of the man's monklike concentration and tireless industry against the glitz and screaming egos of collectors, dealers and artists. --The New York Times Book Review on Alfred H. Barr, Jr.: Missionary for the Modern

The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg : a Biography

Art Czar

Missionary for the Modern

Alfred H. Barr, Jr

"After forty years of subsidy and billions of dollars spent, American arts institutions are no more secure financially than before. Behind the headlines about controversial grants to the arts abides a realm of conservatism, bureaucracy, and jostling special interests, Alice Goldfarb Marquis maintains. With well-established, mainstream institutions capturing the bulk of government subsidies, artistic repertoires are reaching ever further into the past while truly innovative artists languish on the sidelines." "Art Lessons is a fresh look at how Americans fund the arts - and why - by a major cultural historian. Packed with anecdotes about the creation of such leading cultural institutions as Lincoln Center, the National Endowment of the Arts, and the American Film Institute, and filled with stories about politicians, artists, philanthropists, and NEA chairs, the book offers a behind-the-scenes look at our cultural elite: the early battles over whether to allow affluent Jews to be part of the fund-raising establishment ... the controversies over the influence of popular artists such as Leonard Bernstein ("Nobody liked him except the public," carped one critic) ... the monumental mistakes made in the building of Washington's Kennedy Center, which have necessitated repeated federal bailouts ... and much more. From John Kennedy's determination to bolster America's arts as part of his Cold War strategy against the Soviets, to Richard Nixon's support of the NEA's greatest expansion, to Ronald Reagan's abortive efforts to slash arts funding when Republican arts patrons and corporate funders objected, the book is filled with surprises."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Learning From The Rise And Fall Of Public Arts Funding

Art Lessons

A behind-the-scenes look at the art world examines the interaction between collectors, critics, dealers, galleries, museums, scholars, and patrons.

The Covert World of Collectors, Dealers, Auction Houses, Museums, and Critics

The Art Biz

Marcel Duchamp

And she separates the artist from the con artist, to determine just how profound an influence Duchamp has been."--BOOK JACKET.

The Bachelor Stripped Bare : a Biography

How an Unlikely Concatenation of Artists, Aficionados, Businessmen, Collectors, Critics, Curators, Dealers, and Hangers-on Radically Transformed the Art World

Alice Goldfarb Marquis

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