Cultural Policy Beyond Aesthetics
We need ways of measuring cultural tastes and values that will assist the development of cultural policies that will be ‘beyond aesthetics’ in the sense of recognising that, in complex, culturally diverse societies, there is no single hierarchy of cultural values in play of the kind that was supposed in the earlier development of western cultural policies.
Culture, Government and the Social: Twisting the Cultural Turn
Tony Bennett, author of The Birth of the Museum
Working paper: "Cultural Policy Beyond Aesthetics"