The art of the possible

This article suggests that in making its case for public investment and support the arts sector in the UK has tended to argue that the scale of instrumental benefits flowing from the arts depends entirely on the scale of intrinsic benefits. Against this conflation of the intrinsic and the instrument...

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Published in:RSA journal 2011-03, Vol.157 (5545), p.35-36
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