Nonprofit enterprise in the arts : studies in mission and constraint / [edited by] Paul J. DiMaggio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DiMaggio, Paul.

Series:

Yale studies on nonprofit organizations

Yale studies on nonprofit organizations.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--United States--Finance.

Arts.

United States.

Finance.

Nonprofit organizations--United States--Finance.

Nonprofit organizations.

Art patronage--United States.

Art patronage.

Physical Description:

xv, 370 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Summary:

Taking the dichotomy of nonprofit "high culture" and for-profit "popular culture" into consideration, this volume assesses the relationship between social purpose in the arts and industrial organization. DiMaggio brings together some of the best works in several disciplines that focus on the significance of the nonprofit form for our cultural industries, the ways in which nonprofit arts organizations are financed, and the constraints that patterns of funding place on the missions that artists and trustees may wish to pursue. Showing how the production and distribution of art are organized in the United States, the book delineates the differing roles of nonprofit organizations, proprietary firms, and government agencies. In doing so, it brings to the surface some of the special tensions that beset arts management and policy, the way the arts are changing or are likely to change, and the policy alternatives "high culture" faces.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 355-360.

ISBN:

0195040635

OCLC:

13093129