Artistic strategy and the rhetoric of power : : political uses of art from antiquity to the present / [electronic resource] / edited by David Castriota.. — Carbondale : : Southern Illinois University Press,, c1986.. — xi, 218 p. : : ill. ; 26 cm.

Papers presented at a symposium held at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, spring 1984, and sponsored by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities of Columbia University. Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 187-207.

Introduction : political art and the rhetoric of power in the historical continuum / David Castriota -- The uses of art to convey political meanings in the ancient Near East / Edith Porada -- "I come to you as your lord" : late Roman imperial art / Richard Brilliant -- The revival of the Augustan Age in the court art of Emperor Frederick II / Jill Meredith -- Deconstruction and reconstruction in Poussin's decoration of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre / Joseph Forte -- "Venetia" : the figuration of the state / David Rosand -- Political and social themes in late eighteenth century British images of India / Kenneth Bendiner -- Political implications of the Houses of Parliament / George L. Hersey -- The arts in early post-revolutionary Russia : the posters of Vladimir Mayakovsky / George Bournoutian -- Tatlin's tower : revolutionary art and life in Russia / Gail Harrison Roman -- Modernists and proletarian music : the composers' collective of the early 1930s / Barbara L. Tischler -- Rockefeller Center : the success of the architecture and the failure of the art program / Carol Herselle Krinsky -- A battle of wills : how Leni Riefenstahl and Frank Capra fought a war with film and remade history / Jacqueline Austin -- Making the invisible visible : the roots of an original magic language / Bernard Aptekar.





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Politics in art.
Arts--Political aspects.
Arts--Themes, motives.

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