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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.
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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 counterrevolution of Thatcherism in The Heritage Industry. He is an internationally recognized 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 the Sunday 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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Condition: Muy bueno. : En 'Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain', el historiador Robert Hewison ofrece un análisis profundo de cómo Gran Bretaña perdió su rumbo creativo. Desde la 'Cool Britannia' y el Millennium Dome hasta los Juegos Olímpicos y más allá, Hewison muestra cómo la cultura se convirtió en una mercancía y cómo el managerialismo obsesionado con los objetivos sofocó la creatividad. En respuesta a los fracasos del Nuevo Laborismo y las medidas de austeridad del gobierno de coalición, Hewison aboga por una nueva relación entre la política y las artes. EAN: 9781781685914 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Historia|Arte y Cultura Título: Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain Autor: Robert Hewison Editorial: Verso Books Idioma: en Páginas: 288 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-05-22-e6b6b0d8