This important new book offers an intellectual history of the 'arts council' policy model, identifying and exploring the ideas embedded in the model and actions of intellectuals, philanthropists and wealthy aesthetes in its establishment in the mid-twentieth century. The book examines the history of arts advocacy for national arts policies in the UK, Canada and the USA, offering an interdisciplinary approach that combines social and intellectual history, political philosophy and literary analysis. The book has much to offer academics, cultural policy and management students, artists, arts...
This important new book offers an intellectual history of the 'arts council' policy model, identifying and exploring the ideas embedded in the model a...
This edited collection develops the first integrated, critical-historical examination of the terms, narratives and assumptions constructing present day notions of participation and value, and the relations between them.
This edited collection develops the first integrated, critical-historical examination of the terms, narratives and assumptions constructing present da...
This is the first book to examine how and why museums are political institutions. By concentrating on the ways in which power, ideology and legitimacy work at the international, national and local levels of the museum experience, Clive Gray provides an original analysis of who exercises power and how power is used in museums.
This is the first book to examine how and why museums are political institutions. By concentrating on the ways in which power, ideology and legitimacy...
This book focuses on cultural policy in the UK between 1997 and 2010 under the Labour party (or 'New Labour', as it was temporarily rebranded). It is based on interviews with major figures and examines a range of policy areas including the arts, creative industries, copyright, film policy, heritage, urban regeneration and regional policy.
This book focuses on cultural policy in the UK between 1997 and 2010 under the Labour party (or 'New Labour', as it was temporarily rebranded). It is ...
Through comparative and integrated case studies, this book demonstrates how aesthetics becomes politics in cultural policy. Cultural policy is seen here as a mechanism for translating values, that through organized and practical aesthetical judgement lend different forms of agency to the arts.
Through comparative and integrated case studies, this book demonstrates how aesthetics becomes politics in cultural policy. Cultural policy is seen he...
This is the first book to examine whether France's ongoing defence of the cultural exception as a means to maintain cultural policies and defend cultural diversity is justifiable in the digital age.
This is the first book to examine whether France's ongoing defence of the cultural exception as a means to maintain cultural policies and defend cultu...