'Community, Art & the State' by Owen Kelly

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Written out of the UK’s community arts movement, this book tracks how artists, collectives, and institutions collided over questions of funding, access, authorship, and control.

Owen Kelly moves between history and argument without pretending they can be separated: the rise of community arts, the pressures of professionalism, the quiet shift from participation to management. He asks who gets to make work, who it’s for, and what happens when the state starts paying attention.

A great working map of how culture gets organised—and how easily its radical edges are absorbed, softened, or redirected.

Paperback edition, first published 1984 by Comedia Publishing Group. In good overall condition: clean, tightly bound text block with only a few markings or inscriptions; pages bright with only light age toning. A well-kept copy of a now less commonly seen book.