{"product_id":"9781781685921","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178154377456,"sku":"9781781685921","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781781685921_p0.jpg?v=1763716856","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781781685921","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}