TY  - BOOK
AU  - Groĭs,Boris
TI  - Art power
SN  - 0262072920
AV  - N72.P6 G76 2008
U1  - 701.03 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Art
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Art and state
KW  - Art, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190); Logic of equal aesthetic rights -- On the new -- On the curatorship -- Art in the age of biopolitics: from artwork to art documentation -- Iconoclasm as artistic device: iconoclastic strategies in film -- From image to image file--and back: art in the age of digitalization -- Multiple authorship -- The city in the age of touristic reproduction -- Critical reflections -- Art at war -- The heroes body: Adolf Hitler's art theory -- Educating the masses: socialist realist art -- Beyond diversity: cultural studies and its post-Communist other -- Privatizations, or artificial paradises of post-Communism -- Europe and its others
N2  - In 'Art Power' the author examines modern art according to its ideological function. Art, he argues, is produced and brought before the public in two ways - as a commodity and as a tool of political propaganda. In developing his thesis he looks at art produced under totalitarinism, Socialism and post-Communism
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