Art and politics : between purity and propaganda / Joes Segal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segal, Joes, author.

Standardized Title:

Kunst en politiek. English

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Political aspects.

Art.

Art and state.

Propaganda in art.

Art, Modern--20th century--Themes, motives.

Art, Modern.

Themes, motives.

Art, Modern--Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

165 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam AUP, [2016]

Summary:

Art and politics seem worlds apart but are often intertwined in surprising ways. Why did the communist painter Diego Rivera accept commissions from conservative Mexican governments and American capitalists? How did American painter Jackson Pollock become a symbol of the free Western world and of communist cultural infiltration during the Cold War? What do the changing representations of Mao Zedong tell us about the role of art and politics in communist China? In seven essays, this book explores the role of artists, critics, historians, politicians and secret services in the sometimes tragic, sometimes tragicomic parallels, contradictions and misunderstandings between both worlds. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Positive and Negative Integration: The First World War in France and Germany 17

2 Between Nationalism and Communism: Diego Rivera and Mexican Muralism 31

3 National and Degenerate Art: The Third Reich 45

4 Internal and External Enemies: The Cold War 61

5 From Maoism to Capitalist Communism: The People's Republic of China 79

6 The In-Between Space: Kara Walker's Shadow Murals 99

7 A Heavy Heritage: Monuments in the former Soviet Bloc 111.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index.

ISBN:

9789462981782

9462981787

OCLC:

944087151