Industry that pays, and art that doesn’t (journal article)
by Robyn Archer
from Griffith Review, Autumn 2009
"I take this opportunity to adopt a critical attitude to what I see as something of a hoodwink in current language about the arts. And it’s not just semantics. It is an overarching brand that casually (and largely without protest) engulfs the arts and threatens to diminish their importance and wash over their points of difference. The consequence of this is that it will then be easy to starve them. I am talking, of course, about ‘creative industries’. They are perfectly good and productive industries, often highly creative and certainly deserving of investment because they have the potential to make a return on that investment and be financially sustainable. But what do they have to do with art?"
by Robyn Archer
from Griffith Review, Autumn 2009
"I take this opportunity to adopt a critical attitude to what I see as something of a hoodwink in current language about the arts. And it’s not just semantics. It is an overarching brand that casually (and largely without protest) engulfs the arts and threatens to diminish their importance and wash over their points of difference. The consequence of this is that it will then be easy to starve them. I am talking, of course, about ‘creative industries’. They are perfectly good and productive industries, often highly creative and certainly deserving of investment because they have the potential to make a return on that investment and be financially sustainable. But what do they have to do with art?"
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