Culture and Consensus (Routledge Revivals)

England, Art and Politics since 1940

Robert Hewison

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781138858046
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317512370
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

Culture and Consensus, first published in 1995 and a revised edition in 1997, explores the history of the relationship between politics and the arts in Britain since 1940, and shows how the search for a secure sense of English identity has been reflected in official and unofficial attitudes to the arts, architecture, landscape and other emblems of national significance.

Illustrating his argument with a series of detailed case histories, Robert Hewison analyses how Britain's cultural life has reached its present enfeebled condition and suggests a way forward. This book will be of interest to students of art and cultural studies.

INDEX

ABCA (Army Bureau of Current Affairs), 26, 41, 42, 56, 79, 92, 168

Abercrombie, Nigel, 119, 140–1

abortion, 139, 182

Abrams, Mark, The Teenage Consumer, 136

Abstract Expressionism, 137, 301

abstract painting, 135, 137, 156

Acker, Kathy, 225

Ackroyd, Peter, 51, 225

Action for Cities (1988-9), 274–5

ACTT (film and TV technicians’ union), 114

Adam Smith Institute, 166, 214

Addison, Paul, The Road to 1945, 13, 14, 15, 28

Adorno, Theodor, 131, 146, 147

Adorno, Theodor and Horkheimer, Max, The Dialectic of Enlightenment, 130, 136

advertising, 118, 127, 130, 131, 134, 200, 220, 232, 233

Aitken, Jonathan, 166

Aldeburgh Festival, 59, 73

Aldermaston Easter March, 107, 168

Aldwych Theatre, RSC at, 120

Alexander, Andrew, 166

Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, 279

Allen, Jim, Days of Hope (TV), 178

Allied Lyons (now Allied Domecq), RSC sponsored by, 258

Alloway, Lawrence, 133, 134, 135, 138, 155, 302; ‘The Long Front of Culture’, 135–6

Althusser, Louis, 147, 183, 184, 187, 204, 206, 223

Altringham, Lord, 86

American Economic Association, 285

Amis, Kingsley, 90, 91, 117, 167, 169, 245; Lucky Jim, 90, 93

Amis, Martin, 225

Anderson, Sir John, 43, 71

Anderson, Lindsay, 64, 74, 104, 108, 138

Anderson, Perry, 12, 112, 121, 127, 145–7, 148, 149, 153, 158, 205; ‘Components of the National Culture’, 149

Andre, Carl, Equivalent VIII, 156

Andrew, Prince, 1

Anglo-Irish Agreement (1986), 293

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I Dis-United Kingdom: Britain in the 1990s
• II Deep England: Britain in the 1940s
• III New Britain: Britain in the early 1950s
• IV The Uses of Culture: Britain in the later 1950s
• V A Swinging Meritocracy: Britain in the 1960s
• VI The Uses of Sub-Culture: Britain in the 1970s
• VII The Enterprise Culture: Britain in the 1980s
• VIII Value for Money: The arts under Thatcherism
• IX The Public Culture: Britain in the future
• Index