The Arts at a New Frontier: The National Endowment for the by Fannie Taylor PDF

By Fannie Taylor

Profound adjustments have been happening in American society through the interval of the Sixties and Seventies whilst laws for the nationwide beginning for the humanities and the arts used to be enacted and the enterprises went into operation. It was once a interval of soul-searching by means of the yank public while the loved prejudices and civil inequities of the earlier many years have been burnt up and outdated wounds started to heal; whilst, although, the Vietnam battle used to be developing new fissures and antagonisms. Into this newly therapeutic, newly wondering society, congressional motion thrust the nationwide Council at the Arts in 1964, and the nationwide Endowment for the humanities in 1965. Their project used to be to motivate and help the humanities, and the boys and girls charged with this accountability went approximately their paintings with the keenness and exuberance of non secular converts. the belief of even a minute quantity of federal monetary tips to the country's chronically beleaguered and sometimes impoverished artists and humanities organi­ zations appeared unusual to a section of the inhabitants that had existed in forgot­ ten independence from govt intervention. the various nation's artists and humanities leaders have been cautious, partially as a result of the uncertainties and constraints of prior styles of governmental support.

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9460 being reported out of Committee for consideration by the total House membership. This action set the scene for a spirited and sometimes humorous debate on the floor of the House. 56 Provisions of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act It seems appropriate at this point to discuss the legislation already approved by the Senate and about to be debated on the floor of the House. 57 The National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act sought to establish a new independent agency within the Executive Branch of government with two funding wings called endowments: a National Endowment for the Arts and a National Endowment for the Humanities.

3 LEGISLATIVE CONSENSUS 19 One factor mentioned by almost everyone who has investigated the "culture boom" is that of immigration to America from Europe as a result of World War II. Artists, writers, and musicians came to America as part of a massive group of educated people with highly developed attitudes and appreciations for the arts. Because the arts had played such an important part in their lives in Europe, these new citizens sought to establish a cultural climate in the United States that would fulfil their desires for continuing arts experiences.

William Moorhead of Pennsylvania and Sen. Ernest Gruening of Alaska. Both Congressmen introduced legislation in their respective Houses for the creation of a humanities foundation. But it was Senator Pell of Rhode Island who spearheaded the development of combined arts and humanities legislation. Livingston Biddle stated: Claiborne Pell, because of his understanding of the value of scholarship and because Barnaby Keeney was president of Brown University in his home state, felt very strongly about the developing legislation for the humanities.

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