Arts Councillors
Brigid Brophy, 7 October 1982
The State and the Visual Arts
by Nicholas Pearson.
Open University, 128 pp., £5.95, September 1982,0 335 10109 7 Show More
by Nicholas Pearson.
Open University, 128 pp., £5.95, September 1982,
The Politics of the Arts Council
by Robert Hutchison.
Sinclair Browne, 186 pp., £7.95, June 1982,0 86300 016 9 Show More
by Robert Hutchison.
Sinclair Browne, 186 pp., £7.95, June 1982,
“... My fellow members of the Left often seem to have met an entirely different middle class from the one I was brought up in. Left-wing chat about education accepts without challenge the thesis that book learning comes easily to middle-class children because they come from homes conversant with books. Chat (which is rarer) about arts policy accepts that ‘standards’ and ‘quality’ are bourgeois conventions which the middle class has contrived to impose on public patronage of the arts, thereby getting itself, at the taxpayers’ expense, a bonanza of the kinds of art which it happens to enjoy ... ”