Humanities Discussion
“Government and the Arts” Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:
Examine the U.S. Government’s support during the Great Depression for programs, such as the Federal Arts Project, the Federal Writers’ Project, and other such efforts. Determine whether or not such projects were good government investments during those hard times, and provide two (2) examples that support your viewpoint. Determine in what ways the U.S. government currently tries to support the arts.
Explore:
Government and the Arts
Chapter 37 (pp. 1228-1231), Federal support for the arts
Government helping the arts in hard times at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/1934-Picturing-Hard Times.html and http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/powerprose/wpa/
Attached is Chapter 37 (pp. 1228-1231).
