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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mary Anne GoleyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.426kg ISBN: 9781538171219ISBN 10: 153817121 Pages: 262 Publication Date: 17 August 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Preface— The Federal Reserve as a Paradigm of Virtue Chapter One: The Arts and the Central Bank, the Beginning Chapter Two: The First 1200 Days, Gaining Traction Chapter Three: New Chairman Paul A. Volcker and Induction into the Fed Family Chapter Four: Volcker Reanointed Chapter Five: A Master Builder, Alan Greenspan Chapter Six: A Big Anniversary, 20 for XX Chapter Seven: What the Millennium Wrought About the AuthorReviewsGoley offers an insider's view of the Fed's institutional culture, the larger-than-life personalities she met, and the significance of the Fine Arts Program in this unique context. * Fine Art Connoisseur * With a connoisseur's acumen, a diplomat's finesse, and a juggler's dexterity, Mary Anne Goley spent three decades assembling an art collection and organizing exhibitions at the Federal Reserve Board. In this fascinating account of her singular career, we meet the world's top bankers, European royalty, and art-world characters as colorful as the Fed's Frankenthaler painting. -- Helen A. Harrison, Director, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center Mary Anne Goley is a remarkable woman with a career to match. In Democracy's Medici she offers an insightful analysis of her leadership of the Federal Reserve Board's Fine Arts Program from 1975 to 2006. It is a must for those with interests in the politics of arts administration, collecting, and curation. -- Karen Patricia Heath, Senior Research Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford Learn about one of America's great institutions and how a strong-minded, talented and independent woman worked to guide the policy of supervisors for what she believed to be the betterment of a wonderful and useful art program at the Fed. -- Samuel H. Vickers, CEO Design Containers, Inc., former Chairman of the Jacksonville Fed Branch bank Author InformationMary Anne Goley was the founding director of the Fine Arts Program of the Federal Reserve Board (1975–2006). She led a fifteen-member advisory panel and liaisoned with Federal Reserve board members and the thirty-six system-wide bank presidents and their Directors advising on Board art policy. Organizing over 110 exhibitions (many catalogue essays were authored by Goley), the strategy at the Federal Reserve complemented that of local museums as well as made contributions to the field. Beginning in 1988 Goley worked with central banks and museums in Austria, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. Scholarly contributions have included the exhibitions: The Hague School and Its American Legacy, Gerald Murphy, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Paintings of Eduard J. Steichen, Samuel Halpert, Austrian Biedermeier, Polish Constructivism, and The Influence of Velasquez on Modern Painting, The American Experience, among others. Two exhibitions resulted in foreign decorations from The Netherlands and Luxembourg. In 2006 she organized The Face of Contemporary Art in China and traveled an exhibition of the Board’s collection to the European Central Bank. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |