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Cultural Capital

By Robert Hewison

Cultural Capital

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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2014-11-11
Publication Date:
2014-11-11
Publisher:
Verso
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1781685916
ISBN13:
9781781685914
Weight:
439 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
233 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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