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Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain
Robert Hewison
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Description for Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain
Paperback. How money, politics and the Arts turned a golden age for culture into lead Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JM; JFC; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
438g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781685914
SKU
V9781781685914
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99-2
About Robert Hewison
Robert Hewison is a historian of contemporary British culture. Beginning in 1939 with Under Siege, his series of books presents a portrait of Britain that runs from the perils of wartime to the counter-revolution of Thatcherism in The Heritage Industry. He is an internationally recognised authority on the work of John Ruskin, and has held chairs at Oxford, Lancaster and ... Read more
Reviews for Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain
Long Britain's best chronicler of culture and political policy, Robert Hewison turns his unflinching gaze on the New Labour era, a time of targets, access and excellence for all, complete with the National Lottery, Cool Britannia, the Millennium Dome and the 2012 Olympics. It's not a pretty sight, and his findings of folly, incompetence and ... Read more