Cultural Capital : The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain EPUB
by Robert Hewison
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Britain began the twenty-first century convinced of its creativity. Throughout the New Labour era, the visual and performing arts, museums and galleries, were ceaselessly promoted as a stimulus to national economic revival, a post-industrial revolution where spending on culture would solve everything, from national decline to crime. Tony Blair heralded it a "golden age." Yet despite huge investment, the audience for the arts remained a privileged minority. So what went wrong?
In Cultural Capital, leading historian Robert Hewison gives an in-depth account of how creative Britain lost its way. From Cool Britannia and the Millennium Dome to the Olympics and beyond, he shows how culture became a commodity, and how target-obsessed managerialism stifled creativity. In response to the failures of New Labour and the austerity measures of the Coalition government, Hewison argues for a new relationship between politics and the arts.
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- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Verso
- Publication Date:11/11/2014
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- ISBN:9781781687512
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Verso
- Publication Date:11/11/2014
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- ISBN:9781781687512