Pick Building Jerusalem

Art, Industry and the British Millennium
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-134-41449-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 324 Seiten

A lively and provocative account of the arts in Britain, Building Jerusalem suggests that even after fifty years of state planning of Britain's "leisure industries" the country is nevertheless approaching the millennium in a state of cultural confusion. Drawing on a wealth of historical material from Scotland, Wales, and English provincial towns, as well as the more familiar London story, Pick and Anderton contend that the original meaning of cultural language has been distorted by the fashionable phrase-making of modern government agencies, and by the inaccurate and misleading view of cultural history that is constantly presented to the public.

The authors unfold fascinating stories of Britain's cultural past, before state support of the arts. They vividly relate the great changes wrought by the industrial revolution and by the development of the twentieth century media and describe the long history of Church and Royal support for the arts, as well as the long periods when all of the arts

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pick, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Shock of the Old
The Virgin Queen
The Royal Enclosures
Industriousness and the Lottery
The Glory of Commercial Art
Industrial Revolution
The Great Exhibition
Provision for the People
The Horrors of Tourism
Mass, Messages and the Media
Nationalisation of the Arts
The Mirage of the Millennium
Shadows and Illusion
Appendix: Comparison of Cultural Organisations and Workers in Cardiff, Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield in 1850, 1900 and 1950