SOCIOCULTURAL DEGENERATION AND STATE PATRONAGE OF THE ARTS: MAPPLETHORPE, CULTURAL CRISIS, AND THE NEA Greyson Brooks ('06), Anthropology My research explores how the United States federal government, through organizations and bureaucracies such as the National Endowment for the Arts, acts as a patron, with specific anaylsis of the past decade and a half since the 'art crisis' of the late 1980s an