art week 8
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art / culture / politics
“politics” —
“pōlis” . . .
“city” . . .
“politics” —
“pōlis” . . .
“city” . . .
“the place (and the governing institutions of the place)
where the dēmos (the people) live”
Plato:“Politeia”
Plato:“Politeia”
“the conditions and rights of the citizen, or citizenship,”
analogous to the Latin “civitas.”
[Plato did not write “The Republic” . . . ]
“politics,” the “political” . . .
“having to do with government and governing”
[“politics” is about power . . . ]
The Artworld is political . . .
“It” governs the definition,
dissemination, evaluation, Economy
of art.
The Artworld is political . . .
“It” governs the definition,
dissemination, evaluation, economy
of art.Because after all,
What do we “know” of the artwork?
The Artworld is political . . .
“It” governs the definition,
dissemination, evaluation, economy
of art.Because after all,
What do we “know” of the artwork?
The artwork.
socius
socius becomes polis
when valuesare institutionalized
socius becomes polis
when valuesare institutionalized
(when art becomes aestheticit becomes political)
Example:
Jacques-Louis David
1. The “Old World”
Jacques-Louis David,
“The Oath of the Horatii,”
1784
—monarchy (Louis XVI)
—stability—loyalty—traditional
patriarchal values—traditional gender
politics—neoclassical style—grand, dramatic
gestures
1789
2. The “Revolutionary World”
Jacques-Louis David, “The Death of Marat,” 1793
—revolutionary
government—martyrdom—simplicity—austerity—anti-monarchism—religious imagery
1799-1800
3. The “New World”
Jacques-Louis David, “Bonaparte Crossing the Alps,” 1801
—hero worship—dynamic energy—force(s) of nature—size of figures—security—trust—leadership
1804
4. The “New Old World”
Jacques-Louis David,“The Coronation of Napoleon,” 1806
—royal pageant—opulence—huge scale—stability—traditional patriarchial values
politics . . .
Francisco Goya,
“The Family of Charles IV,”
1800
Francisco Goya,“Third of May,
1808,”1814
Eugène Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People,”1830
WE’VE ALREADY LOOKED AT SOMETIMELY
AMERICAN EXAMPLES
Dorothea LangeMigrant Mother1936
Robert FrankTrolley, New Orleans
1955
Thomas BallThe Emancipation Group1874
politics . . .
p r o p a g a n d a
politics . . .
. . . if “art is manipulation”
. . . if “art is manipulation”
then propaganda is “manipulation through art”
propagandapropagare . . .
propagandapropagare . . .
“to circuate, disseminate, or spread the faith”
(In Catholicism, instruction for foreign missionaries)
propaganda
this is how it started . . .
propaganda
this is how
propaganda
propaganda
this is how it started . . .
By the 19th and early 20th centuries . . .
propagandathe systematic setting down and spreading
of (generally false or misleading)
ideas or information to support or injure
an institution, person, cause
. . . not intended to mislead, but to make a strong political point . . .
Thomas BallThe Emancipation Group1874
Perhaps not intended to
mislead, but
consider the politics
of the image
Thomas BallThe Emancipation Group1874
