{"product_id":"9781781685914","title":"Cultural Capital : The Rise and Fall of Creative Britain by Robert Hewison","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304041951605,"sku":"9781781685914","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781685914.jpg?v=1762795400","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781781685914","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}