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79: 97: 633: 186:. The Arts Council commissioned 12 sculptors and 60 painters, who made large paintings, 114 by 152 centimetres (45 by 60 in) or more, to be displayed at the festival. Ultimately the works were to be given to new hospitals, libraries, schools, and health centres that emerged after the war. There were five cash prizes awarded: 171:. Keynes used his political influence to ensure that the Arts Council reported directly to the Treasury rather than an arts minister or the education department as had been the case with CEMA, establishing the principle of an 'arms length' relationship between UK arts policy and the government of the day. 288:, who resigned from the council in protest. In 1987 the restructure inspired by Rees-Mogg cut by half the number of organisations receiving Arts Council funding. During the same period the Arts Council began encouraging a greater level of corporate sponsorship for the arts. 241:. This period saw the council establish a network of arts organisations across the country as regular client organisations and a programme of touring exhibitions and performances. To support the council’s responsibilities in relation to the visual arts, it opened the 303:
was established and the Arts Council of England became one of the distribution bodies. For the first year after the change in organisation, the Arts Council of England acted to follow through on the final plans of the Arts Council of Great Britain.
276:. The government grant to the council was capped effecting a real-terms reduction in funding, though it was argued that any shortfall would be made up by increased sponsorship from the private sector. The secretary-general from 1975 to 1983, 162:
who used his influence in government to secure a high level of funding despite Britain's poor finances following the war. The majority of this funding was directed to organisations with which Keynes had close ties such as the
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was a political appointment as chairman and proposed slimming down the council's responsibilities. This led to a series of clashes with prominent figures from the arts such as
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to be conducted by two committees known as the Scottish and Welsh Arts Councils – the basis for the later Scottish Arts Council and Arts Council of Wales.
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After Keynes' death in April 1946 government funding was reduced but the Arts Council received wide recognition for its contribution to the
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During the 1970s and 1980s the Arts Council came under attack for being elitist and politically biased, in particular from the prominent
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The Autobiography of a Nation: The 1951 Exhibition of Britain, Representing Britain in the Post-War World
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was granted on 9 August 1946 followed by another in 1967. The latter provided for functions in
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Before the Arts Council: Campaigns for state funding of the arts in Britain, 1934–44
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Arts and Cultures, The History of the 50 Years of the Arts Council of Great Britain
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Guide to the Archive of Art and Design: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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The Arts Council of Great Britain – 49th annual report and accounts 93 94
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On 1 April 1994 it was replaced by the Arts Council of England, the
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The Work of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts
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in 1968 as a home for its major exhibitions and the base for the
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Culture and Consensus: England, Art and Politics Since 1940
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at an aircraft factory in the Midlands during World War II
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Who's Who in Music and Musicians' International Directory
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was established and these three arts councils, plus the
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Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol. 93, No. 4690
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British Arts Council
non-departmental public body
fine arts
Great Britain
Arts Council England
Scottish Arts Council
Creative Scotland
Arts Council of Wales
National Lottery
Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Ballet Rambert
Peter and The Wolf

HMS Duke of York
Second World War
British culture
Lord De La Warr
President of the Board of Education
Reginald Jacques
Sir Henry Walford Davies
George Dyson
John Denison
royal charter
Scotland
Wales
John Maynard Keynes
Royal Opera House
Central London
Festival of Britain

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