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Repressive Regimes, Aesthetic States, and Arts of Resistance

Repressive Regimes, Aesthetic States, and Arts of Resistance

Bruner, M. Lane
McKinney, Mitchell S.
Gronbeck, Bruce

Hardcover

Series: Frontiers in Political Communication, Book 14

General ArtGeneral Political SciencePlays

ISBN10: 1433101084
ISBN13: 9781433101083
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Jul 12 2012
Pages: 267
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Repressive Regimes, Aesthetic States, and Arts of Resistance investigates the tensions between politics and aesthetics by exploring the ways in which various arts are mobilized in the service of political repression and human emancipation. Building upon theories of the arts/politics and aesthetics/states relation, the book utilizes illuminating historical case studies to reveal the roles public arts have played in the construction of different types of aesthetic states: in ancient Rome during the transition from Republic to Empire, in modern Europe during the transition from feudalism to capitalism, and in the postmodern United States under the conditions of advanced capitalism. After comparing theories to practices of statecraft, the book goes on to explore contemporary arts of resistance against corrupt corporate practices and repressive political regimes. In light of these examples, it becomes evident there is an ongoing world-historical battle between those who aestheticize the political to perpetuate repressive regimes and those who politicize the aesthetic to make states less repressed and peoples more reasonable.

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