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What are some books that talk about how the government should deal with art? Should the government fund art? Which art? Should the government censor art? Could the government take on the role of patron that is missing? How could the government take more of a role in the aesthetics of how a city is built? etc etc.

>> No.18795266

you perhaps dont need to censor art accept in the utmost extreme situation, but funding for better art could help put it on a pedastal for everyone to see and might encourage people to naturally gravitate towards it so you can foster a better culture without the sort of overt iron fist that encourages contrarian backlash

>> No.18795287

>>18795266
Can you read?

>> No.18795348

>>18795287
well gee whiz anon, im sorry i dont have a book rec but i figured your thread would be potentially interesting enough to bump by discussing the topic at hand

i guess i should have just let your thread die before anyone with recommendations had a chance to share them

>> No.18795376

>>18795348
That wasn't me. You can see there is 3 posters

>> No.18795502

>>18795376
my apologies, i guess i should have looked before I posted

>> No.18796604

bunpo

>> No.18796654

>>18795142
Platos republic talks about exactly this for atleast a chapter, maybe more

>> No.18798166

>>18795142
Mozi argued against music:
https://ctext.org/mozi/condemnation-of-music-i
The Confucians, on the other hand, strongly favored music as a contributor to social order; there is discussion of this throughout the Confucian canon.

>> No.18798979

>>18795142
You'll have trillions of these problems if you have government.

>> No.18799025

>>18795142
How come monarchs and popes funded kino and works of perennial beauty whereas liberal democracies fund giant dildos and hunks of concrete, what’s up with that?

>> No.18799451

>>18799025
>liberal democracies fund giant dildos and hunks of concrete, what’s up with that?
Politicians want to "fund" these things (all things) become they take a cut from every ounce which goes through their budgets. What exactly they "fund" doesn't matter to them in the slightest.

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Somewhat tangentially related, there's Stonor Saunder's "Who paid the piper?" on the use of art as a political instrument during the cold war.

As a starter you can read a bit about the Congress for Cultural Freedom and its associated figures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_for_Cultural_Freedom

>> No.18799877

Also, more on point would probably be "Good and plenty" by Tyler Cowen and whatever arguments justify French/EU Cultural Exception.

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>>18799025
>tfw my city spent a million dollars of tax money on this "sculpture"

>> No.18800382

I don't have a book, but I think a lot of the stimulus for COVID went to the arts and museums, in the USA. Probably so someone could launder the money to someone's pockets, but it is somewhat related.