Author: Kevin F. McCarthy
Publisher: RAND Corporatio
Keywords: benefits, arts, debate, reframing, muse, gifts
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2005-02-25
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0833036947
ISBN-13: 9780833036940

This study offers a new framework for understanding how the arts create private and public value, highlights the importance of the arts intrinsic benefits and indentifies how both instrumental and instrinsic benefits are created.

Author: Kevin M. McCarthy
Publisher: Pineapple Press (FL)
Keywords: books, literary, sites, authors, florida, lover, guide, book
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1992-12-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1561640212
ISBN-13: 9781561640218

•An exhaustive survey of writers, books, and literary sites •Learn what authors lived in or wrote about a place, which books describe the place, and what important movies were made there •Both a travel guide and a reading guide •Also includes essays on topics such as Florida poetry, literary magazines, and mysteries

Author: Kevin F. McCarthy
Publisher: RAND Corporatio
Keywords: new, era, challenges, arts, visual, portrait
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 2005-10-25
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0833037935
ISBN-13: 9780833037930

Providing information about developments in the visual arts world, this book promotes and analysis of the sector, describing the characteristics of visual arts consumers, artists, finances, and organization.

Author: Kevin McCarthy
Publisher: Pineapple Pr
Keywords: sites, coastal, historical, lighthouses, georgia
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1998-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 156164143X
ISBN-13: 9781561641437

Though only 110 miles long, Georgia’s coast is a wealth of historic beauty, including lighthouses, forts, historic homes, plantations, churches, and more. Includes stories of Civil War soldiers, pioneers and settlers, Native Americans, seafarers and pirates (including Blackbeard), a ghost or two, and the St Simons Lighthouse, one of America’s oldest continuously working lighthouses. Each site is illustrated with a full-color painting.

Author: Kevin F. McCarthy
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: arts, changing, world, media, cyberspace, celluliod
Number of Pages: 79
Published: 2002-11-25
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0833030760
ISBN-13: 9780833030764

The media arts are the newest and most technologically intensive of the arts. Consisting of narrative, documentary and avant garde film and video, digital art, and installation art using media, they represent a mix of the performing and visual arts. Despite their short history, they are also marked by many of the trends that characterize the arts sector as a whole. This report discusses the origins and developments of the media arts and component disciplines, their distinguishing features, and the key challenges they face in the future. The authors also compare the issues facing the media arts

Author: Kevin F. McCarthy
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: era, new, arts, performing
Number of Pages: 137
Published: 2001-08-25
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0833030418
ISBN-13: 9780833030412

This book examines recent trends in the performing arts and discusses howthe arts are likely to evolve in the future. It is the first book to providea comprehensive overview of the performing arts, including analysis ofopera, theater, dance, and music, in both their live and recorded forms. Theauthors focus on trends affecting four aspects of the performing arts--audiences, performers, arts organizations, and financing--and offer a visionfor the future. The book discusses the implications of current and likelyfuture developments and considers public policy issues such as publicfunding for the

Author: Kevin M McCarthy
Publisher: Pineapple Press
Keywords: guidebook, river, johns
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1561644358
ISBN-13: 9781561644353

From any point of view—historical, commercial, or recreational—the St. Johns River is the most important river in Florida. Its 310 miles have been witness to some of the most important people in our state’s history: Jean Ribault, John and William Bartram, John McIntosh, Zephaniah Kingsley, Harriet Beecher Stowe; as well as many important groups: Timucuan and Seminole Indians, runaway slaves, British and Spanish settlers, missionaries, and many thousands of more modern Floridians and visitors who have boated, fished, developed, painted, photographed, and described the river. This guide