Artistic strategy and the rhetoric of power : political uses of art from antiquity to the present / edited by David Castriota.

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Artistic strategy and the rhetoric of power : political uses of art from antiquity to the present / edited by David Castriota.

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xi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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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 bibliographical references (pages 187-207) and index.
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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0809312891
9780809312894

Subject:

Politics in art.
Arts Political aspects.
Arts Themes, motives.
Politique dans l'art.
Arts Aspect politique.
Arts Thèmes, motifs.

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Castriota, David, 1950-
Columbia University. Society of Fellows in the Humanities.

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Location: Library main 109873
Call No.: ID:86-B22179
Status: Available

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