Author: Hutchison, Robert

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Book

Summary:

The author examines the policies of the Art Council of Great Britain, and suggests ways in which it can be more open in its decisions and thus more accountable to the public.

Abstract:

The author examines the policies of the Art Council of Great Britain, and suggests ways in which it can be more open in its decisions and thus more accountable to the public.

CONTENTS
Introduction. 

  1. Politicians and the Arts council.
  2. Truly impartial? or the making of the English opera class.
  3. Amateur and professional.
  4. Standards and double standards.
  5. The selective tradition.
  6. The importance of context.
  7. Artists and experiments.
  8. National, regional, local.
  9. Youth and education.
10. Power and policy.

Conclusion: reform and devolution.

Appendix:
     A. Memorandum submitted by the Arts Council of Great Britain to the House of
         Commons Select Committee on Education, Science and the Arts.
     B. Open letter to Melvyn Bragg from the Federation of Worker Writers and
         Community Publishers.

Arts & Intersections:

Categories: Funding