Nonprofit Enterprise in the Arts: Studies in Mission & Constraint

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.


Author: Paul J. Dimaggio
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/15/1987
Pages: 386
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.22w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9780195040630

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