Art and Politics

Catalog description

Explores issues and relationships between the arts and politics through historical examples, significant artists and works, key thinkers, and theoretical approaches. Considers topics such as: the arts and ideology, art and the politics of representation, propaganda, censorship, state-supported art, human rights, revolution and war, cultural change, and political aesthetics. Emphasizes interdisciplinary arts and period study, including the arts and The Russian Revolution, the art in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, and, generally, the arts, art and social movements (e.g., U.S. Civil Rights era, Eastern Europe's solidarity movement and Velvet Revolutions), as well as the arts and politics in selected contemporary contexts (e.g., China, the Middle East).