Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain

di Robert Hewison (Autore)

Verso Books, 2014

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.

• Autore: Robert Hewison
• Editore: Verso Books
• Anno: 2014
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 240 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 156 mm
• Peso: 440 gr.
• EAN: 9781781685914

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