{"product_id":"cultural-capital-robert-hewison-9781781685914","title":"Cultural Capital: The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003eBritain 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCultural Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Hewison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781685916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781685914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Robert Hewison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47244221382911,"sku":"9781781685914","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c198f69c-3b8b-440b-971d-371eadb04d55.jpg?v=1758135228","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cultural-capital-robert-hewison-9781781685914","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}