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Topic: RSS FeedStructures of corporate arts patronage between the World Wars: a case study of the corporate leader P. S. du Pont.
Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, January, 2004 by Kirchberg, Volker
The years following the First World War were formative years for an emerging institutionalized American corporate culture of generosity. Prior to this time, powerful elite patrons ("Lord and Lady Bountiful") decided on personal grounds whether they would support charitable causes, but beginning after the First World War, these individual rationales for arts supports came under scrutiny in anonymous, publicly traded companies that were accountable to varied stockholders; the result was the establishment of a formalized bureaucratic system of corporate arts support. In the early years of the post-World War I period, however, corporate presidents or chairmen of the board still held considerable authority to make autonomous decisions about art patronage. Corporate leaders...
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