Fair Play - Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

by Jen Harvie

Book Overview

What is the quality of participation in contemporary art and performance? Is it damaged by cultural policies introduced since the 1997 election of New Labour - and especially since the 2008 recession - which have 'entrepreneurialized' artists, cut arts funding and cultivated corporate philanthropy and the 'creative industries'? Might it contribute to urban gentrification, particularly in London? Has its democratic potential been at all fortified by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137027274
• ISBN13: 9781137027276
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"