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The Heritage Industry: Britain in a Climate of Decline

Artist/Author: Robert Hewison | Reference: P3494 | ISBN: 978-0413161109 | Type: Publication

Sets out to protect the present and the future of life in Britain from their most dangerous enemy: a creeping takeover by the past. While the real economy crumbles, a new force is taking over: the Heritage Industry, a movement dedicated to turning the British Isles into one vast open-air museum.

A Good Night Out: Popular Theatre; Audience, Class and Form

Artist/Author: John McGrath | Reference: P3155 | ISBN: 978-1854593702 | Type: Publication

The classic manifesto on popular theatre by the founder of the 7:84 Theatre Companies. Looking at the ways different classes take their entertainment, he puts the case for what theatre could be doing for the populace instead of walling itself up in subsidised fortresses for the well-to-do.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and class and cultural privilege. (P3152)

Provinciality and the art world: the Midland Group 1961–1977

Artist/Author: Hannah Neate | Reference: A0649 | Type: Article

This paper focuses on the Midland Group Gallery in order to make a case for the consideration of the geographies of art galleries, highlight the importance of galleries in the context of cultural geographies of the sixties, and discuss the role of provinciality in the operation of art worlds.

In misc folder 5A.