Shaun Glanville suggest a new approach to finding economic and social justifications of the arts.
We seem to have a generation of young artists who have been indoctrinated by decades of public funding policy to believe that art must have a purpose beyond itself; that public subsidy of the arts can only be justified on the basis of economic or social outcomes. I believe the pursuit of such justification is not only futile – it is wrong-headed.
We seem to have a generation of young artists who have been indoctrinated by decades of public funding policy to believe that art must have a purpose beyond itself; that public subsidy of the arts can only be justified on the basis of economic or social outcomes. I believe the pursuit of such justification is not only futile – it is wrong-headed.