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Introduction: Does Public Funding Require Funding of All Art? |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / POINT/COUNTERPOINT: PUBLIC FUNDING OF ART |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 347 Words, 2,119 Characters |
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The following point/counterpoint presents two sides on the noisy and increasingly intemperate public controversy over public funding of the arts.
John Frohnmayer, the recently dismissed chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, argues that government s...
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...es to governmental funding is merely a privilege and not a right. In the arts, there are no agreed-upon standards; many absurd performances are justified, and arrogant claims are made for the artistic merit of supposed art. "It is not true," Kaplan concludes, "that we have no constitutional defense against the obligation to fund schlock, fraud, or attempts to set us at war with one another."
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