Description
| Product ID: | 9781781685914 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Cultural Capital |
| Subtitle: | The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain |
| Authors: | Author: Robert Hewison |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Cultural studies, Cultural studies, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 21st century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating How money, politics and the Arts turned a golden age for culture into lead 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2014-11-11 |
