Griffith Review 23: Essentially Creative
ABC Books, $19.95 pb, 251 pp
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Griffith Review 23: Essentially Creative edited by Julianne Schultz
by Anthony Lynch •
One year after Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Summit, Griffith Review 23 features comment from selected summiteers in the ‘Towards a Creative Australia’ group, and others. Editor Julianne Schultz’s introduction provides a short history of support for writers and artists beginning 250 years ago when Lord Bute, the prime minister, granting Samuel Johnson a government-funded pension for life, warned against ‘Reducing discussion of the arts, creativity and culture to economics …’
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