Art and Politics under Modern Dictatorships
Title | Art and Politics under Modern Dictatorships PDF eBook |
Author | Caterina Preda |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2017-07-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3319572709 |
This book analyzes the relationship between art and politics in two contrasting modern dictatorships. Through a detailed look at the Chilean and Romanian dictatorships, it compares the different ways in which political regimes convey their view of the world through artistic means. It examines how artists help \ convey a new understanding of politics and political action during repressive regimes that are inspired by either communism or anti-communism (neoliberalism, traditionalist, conservative). This book demonstrates how artistic renderings of life during dictatorships are similar in more than one respect, and how art can help better grasp the similarities of these regimes. It reveals how dictatorships use art to symbolically construct their power, which artists can consolidate by lending their support, or deconstruct through different forms of artistic resistance.
Art Under a Dictatorship
Title | Art Under a Dictatorship PDF eBook |
Author | Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Item concerntrates upon art in Germany between 1933 and 1945.
Art and Power
Title | Art and Power PDF eBook |
Author | Dawn Ades |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Brazilian Art Under Dictatorship
Title | Brazilian Art Under Dictatorship PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Calirman |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2012-05-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0822351536 |
Non la biennale de Sao Paulo -- Antonio Manuel: experimental exercise of freedom? -- Artur Barrio: a visual aesthetics for the third world -- Cildo Meireles: an explosive art -- Conclusion: Opening the wounds : longing for closure.
Overcoming Dictatorships
Title | Overcoming Dictatorships PDF eBook |
Author | Jutta Vinzent |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art |
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"Overcoming Dictatorships explores art produced in response to the collapse of political authoritarian systems in 1989, particularly those of the Soviet bloc. A case in point is the visual work and discussions of ten artists who have bean selected and commissioned by 'Overcoming Dictatorships', a 2006-09 project generously funded by the European Union (EU). It aims to create a dialogue on post-dictatorial experiences among participants from countries designated as 'East' and 'West' Europe. Their works represent attempts to overcome collective identity formations of the past (i.e. the Soviet bloc, National Socialism and Fascism), critically engage with the fear of new dictatorships (including consumerism, globalization and mass media) and question 'western' political and social-economic uniformities (including the EU). Hence Overcoming Dictatorships challenges compartmentalized thinking and thus attempts to overcome authoritarianism. It is not the intention to add another pillar to a proclaimed European cultural heritage, but rather to contribute to bridging the East and the West, exposing the concepts of East and West Europe as in transition, which, as dominant cultural reference points for the contemporary visual, may also be on the way out, being replaced by an endless variety of issues, themes and positions." --Book Jacket.
Universities Under Dictatorship
Title | Universities Under Dictatorship PDF eBook |
Author | John Connelly |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780271047966 |
Dictator's Dreamscape
Title | Dictator's Dreamscape PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph R. Hartman |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2019-04-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822986493 |
Joseph Hartman focuses on the public works campaign of Cuban president, and later dictator, Gerardo Machado. Political histories often condemn Machado as a US-puppet dictator, overthrown in a labor revolt and popular revolution in 1933. Architectural histories tend to catalogue his regime’s public works as derivatives of US and European models. Dictator’s Dreamscape reassesses the regime’s public works program as a highly nuanced visual project embedded in centuries-old representations of Cuba alongside wider debates on the nature of art and architecture in general, especially in regards to globalization and the spread of US-style consumerism. The cultural production overseen by Machado gives a fresh and greatly broadened perspective on his regime’s accomplishments, failures, and crimes. The book addresses the regime’s architectural program as a visual and architectonic response to debates over Cuban national identity, US imperialism, and Machado’s own cult of personality.