High Art Down Home
High Art Down Home

Author: Stuart Plattner

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1996-12

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780226670829

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Met lit. opg. - Met reg. Case study of the St. Louis art market. The author has interviewed the local artists, dealers and collectors.

Trends in Artist Occupations, 1970-1990
Trends in Artist Occupations, 1970-1990

Author: Diane Ellis

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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This report examines the characteristics of the artist population in 1990 and compares them to the 1980 and 1970 census results. Artist occupations selected for study include: actors and directors; announcers; architects; authors; dancers; designers; musicians and composers; painters, sculptors, craft-artists, and artist printmakers; photographers; teachers of art, drama and music in higher education; and artists, performers, and related workers not classified elsewhere. The study examines: (1) "Growth in the Artist Work Force"; (2) "Geographic Trends"; (3) "Demographic Trends"; (4) "Trends Among Women and Minority Artists"; (5) "Age Trends"; (6) "Education Trends"; (7) "Full Time Work Last Year"; (8) "Earnings Trends"; and (9) "Occupation Profiles." Findings indicate that very significant changes have occurred over the target time period. Artists have become more geographically diverse over the two decades. Growth among artist occupations has substantially outdistanced that for the labor force as a whole and for all professional occupations, of which artists account for about one-tenth. Incomes for artists, however, lag significantly behind those for other professionals of equal education and training. The report includes extensive tables and graphs of statistical information. (MM)

Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector
Measuring the Impact of the Nonprofit Sector

Author: Patrice Flynn

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 146150533X

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One of the major tasks facing researchers, practitioners, and funders is the development of empirical tools to measure the inherent worth of nonprofit organizations as well as the sector as a whole. Renowned scholars present chapters on the state of the art of performance measurement in the nonprofit sector and seek to establish a framework for a long-term research agenda to identify, quantify, and self-assess those qualities that make the nonprofit sector unique.

The Performing Arts in a New Era
The Performing Arts in a New Era

Author: Kevin F. McCarthy

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780833032362

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This book examines recent trends in the performing arts and discusses howthe arts are likely to evolve in the future. It is the first book to providea comprehensive overview of the performing arts, including analysis ofopera, theater, dance, and music, in both their live and recorded forms. Theauthors focus on trends affecting four aspects of the performing arts--audiences, performers, arts organizations, and financing--and offer a visionfor the future. The book discusses the implications of current and likelyfuture developments and considers public policy issues such as publicfunding for the arts.

Commodities and Globalization
Commodities and Globalization

Author: Angelique Haugerud

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2000-07-05

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0742574180

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TodayOs growing fascination with flows of people, commodities, technology, capital, images and ideas across national and other boundaries poses fresh theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropology. Commodities offer a particularly useful window on globalization because they, unlike electronically conveyed capital, transport cultural messages. These ideological or symbolic transfers are of particular interest to economic anthropology. This collection considers how conceptions and roles of commodities may change in response to widening spheres of economic interaction and exchange. The essays in this volume are ordered under two themes. Those included in the first section, OCommodities in a Globalizing Marketplace,O address historically and culturally defined variations in meanings and practices associated with commodities in globalizing markets. In Part Two, OThe Circulation and Revaluation of CommoditiesO, contributors analyze how commodity producersO experiences are informed by colonial and post-colonial history, state directives in the marketplace, and locations in dependent or marginalized regions. The chapters all focus on the production process as it responds to, is distorted by and increasingly is controlled by the determination of the value of those commodities outside a OlocalityO.