Cultural Capital
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Cultural Capital by Robert Hewison
How money, politics and the Arts turned a golden age for culture into lead
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 OlympicsIt's not a pretty sight, and his findings of folly, incompetence and vanity will entertain and disturb readers in equal measure. They should also embarrass any politicians and arts administrators who retain a degree of self-awareness. -- Alwyn Turner, author of A Classless Society
This is essential reading for anyone who has the slightest interest in the funding of the arts in this country. -- Richard Eyre
Robert Hewison's Cultural Capital is a brilliant analysis of the way that the intrinsic value of art was undermined by a Blair led government's attempts to control creative production and turn it into an instrument of social engineering. It is a timely warning about the dangers of political interference and a rallying cry for art to both be publicly supported and maintain a hard won independence. Art needs this independence from power in order to show us to ourselves in ways that the media and politics never do and never can. -- Antony Gormley
Hewison's analysis of how a golden age turned to lead is highly authoritative, well argued & conceptually robust. * Guardian *
I could hardly put it down: so forceful, lucid, objective, blackly funny, deeply depressing and URGENTLY NECESSARY. -- Rupert Christiansen * Daily Telegraph *
This is essential reading for anyone who has the slightest interest in the funding of the arts in this country. -- Richard Eyre
Robert Hewison's Cultural Capital is a brilliant analysis of the way that the intrinsic value of art was undermined by a Blair led government's attempts to control creative production and turn it into an instrument of social engineering. It is a timely warning about the dangers of political interference and a rallying cry for art to both be publicly supported and maintain a hard won independence. Art needs this independence from power in order to show us to ourselves in ways that the media and politics never do and never can. -- Antony Gormley
Hewison's analysis of how a golden age turned to lead is highly authoritative, well argued & conceptually robust. * Guardian *
I could hardly put it down: so forceful, lucid, objective, blackly funny, deeply depressing and URGENTLY NECESSARY. -- Rupert Christiansen * Daily Telegraph *
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 City Universities. He is an Associate of the think tank Demos, and has written on the arts for theSunday Times since 1981. He has been a consultant to the Clore Duffield Foundation, the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Arts Council, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and is on the editorial advisory board of the journal Cultural Trends.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781685914 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781685916 |
| Title | Cultural Capital |
| Author | Robert Hewison |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2014-11-11 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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