Foundations of American art scholarship

In the early 1980s, directors of the Henry R. Luce Foundation wished to expand their grant program to support scholarship in art history. Namesake and founder Luce (1898-1967), the enormously successful publisher of the mass-market magazines Time, Fortune, and Life, professed belief in the importan...

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Argitaratua izan da:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/perspective,
Egile nagusia: Leja, Michael
Formatua: Article ou chapitre numérique
Hizkuntza:Anglais
Argitaratua: Perspective 2016
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Sarrera elektronikoa:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Gaia:In the early 1980s, directors of the Henry R. Luce Foundation wished to expand their grant program to support scholarship in art history. Namesake and founder Luce (1898-1967), the enormously successful publisher of the mass-market magazines Time, Fortune, and Life, professed belief in the importance of art for elevating and inspiring a democratic society, so expansion in this direction suited his legacy. The directors, wanting to concentrate their support in a single subfield, surveyed spec...