{"product_id":"cultural-capital","title":"Cultural Capital","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?\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"paperback","offer_id":50250804691082,"sku":"mzj1789935136819","price":24.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (US)","offer_id":50250804723850,"sku":"jow1789935136820","price":10.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"ebook (UK)","offer_id":50250804756618,"sku":"cyk1789935136821","price":25.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/9507\/4954\/files\/cultural-capital_1.jpg?v=1789935141","url":"https:\/\/pulseformv.shop\/products\/cultural-capital","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}