The concept of artistic citizenship (22)
The legacy of the settlement movement (See this entry on Louise Brigham)
The debate about necessity - funding buildings vs. funding people
Art and the function of documentation
The conservation movement
Preserving the artistic past
The elevation of the art of Native Americans
Competition between different agencies - Treasury, Interior, and Commerce
The debate about how work would be evaluated
American regionalism - post office murals
Artistic freedom and interesting commissions - attractive even to artists not needing relief (35)
The concept of the pursuit of happiness (38-39)
Archeological work - the Mound People
Avoiding symbolic or allegorical official art (47)
Victoria Grieve, The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture
Importance of Dewey's progressive cultural theory
Marketing folk art as fine art (163)
The Post-WWII legacy - political art under Stalin and Hitler as discrediting (164)
Anxieties about judgment, political party loyalty, and the privileging of unionization (167)
The Federal Art Project as not necessarily hostile to abstraction (173)
Arguments against middlebrow culture
William Stott, Documentary Expression and Thirties America
Role of the professionalization of social work (93)
Roosevelt and the "documentary imagination" (94)
Use of particulars in fireside chats (96)
Radicals who criticized documentary ethos of Roosevelt (99) - preference for abstract, systemic analysis
WPA "monuments" all around us (102)
America awakening to itself as a culture (103)
Creation of mass audience for art (104)
Privileging Federal Theatre
WPA guides to local communities (112)