Before the Arts Council
Subtitle: Campaigns for State Funding of the Arts in Britain 1934-44
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781350169715
Subjects: Arts
Description: "Before the Arts Council rediscovers three forgotten but influential campaigns for state support of the arts in Britain before and during World War II. Webber's impressive historical excavation challenges existing scholarship which argues that the arts subsidy was the result of the war, and instead re-situates the campaign's origins in the pre-war years. Webber does so by drawing on correspondence from influential figures including Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Maynard Keynes and J.B Priestley, along with extensive use of government papers"--