The Arts Industry: Culture and the 'Real World'

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This lecture takes a look at how the relationship between art and industry has changed over time, with 'art' originally being broadly defined from the sixteenth century onwards as a skill, culminating in the arguably self-contradictory idea of an 'arts industry'.

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This event was on Mon, 14 Apr 1997

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