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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segal, Joes, author.

Standardized Title:

Kunst en politiek. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Political aspects.

Art.

Art and state.

Propaganda in art.

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

Art, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : AUP, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Art and Politics, Segal explores the collision of politics and art in seven enticing essays. The book explores the position of art and artists under a number of different political regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, traveling around the world to consider how art and politics have interacted and influenced each other in different conditions. Joes Segal takes you on a journey to the Third Reich, where Emil Nolde supported the regime while being called degenerate; shows us Diego Rivera creating Marxist murals in Mexico and the United States for anti-Marxist governments and clients; ties Jackson Pollock's drip paintings in their Cold War context to both the FBI and the CIA; and considers the countless images of Mao Zedong in China as unlikely witnesses of radical political change.

Contents:

Introduction

Positive and negative integration : the First World War in France and Germany

Between nationalism and communism : Diego Rivera and Mexican muralism

National and degenerate art : the Third Reich

Internal and external enemies : the Cold War

From Maoism to capitalist communism : the People's Republic of China

The in-between space : Kara Walker's shadow murals

A heavy heritage : monuments in the former Soviet Bloc

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

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

ISBN:

1-003-71836-1

90-485-3152-7

90-485-3151-9

9781003718369

OCLC:

961154531