EAN: 9781433101083

REPRESSIVE REGIMES AESTHETIC STATES AND ARTS OF...

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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