"This book addresses the challenges surrounding the funding of the arts globally, the difficulty educators have faced in attempting to promote the fiscal support of the arts, particularly at the national, legislative level, and innovative ways to fund the arts. It contains resources to help...

"The twentieth century was a time of rapid globalization for advanced art. Artists from a larger number of countries made important contributions than in earlier periods, and they did so in a larger number of places. Many important innovations also diffused more rapidly, and more widely, than in...

"Non-representational painting was one of the most radical artistic innovations of the twentieth century. Abstract painting was created independently by three great pioneers - the experimental innovators Kandinsky and Mondrian, and the conceptual Malevich - virtually simultaneously, in the years...