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67 pages : 20 cm "The 'cultural system' faces a crisis of legitimacy - a problem that has dogged culture for the last 30 years. Cultural professionals have focused on satisfying the policy demands of their funders in an attempt to gain the same unquestioning support for culture that exists for health or education. But the truth is that politicians will never be able to give that support until there exists a more broadly based democratic consensus. The question is where will this come from? Politicians and policy-makers appear to care most about the economic and social outcomes of state-funded culture, while the public and most professionals have a completely different set of concerns. Because of this, the dysfunctional 'cultural system' has become a closed and ill-tempered conversation between professionals and politicians, while the news pages of the media play a destructive role between politics, culture and the public. The diagnosis is worrying, but the prognosis is optimistic. The problems are systemic, but this report argues that solutions must start with cultural professionals. The challenge is to create a different alignment between culture, politics and the public. In pract

Author

John Holden

Publisher

London: Demos

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781841801575

Subjects

Art, Arts