A theoretical excursus on the concept of political art in communism and its aftermath

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This paper confronts the conceptual meanings of "political art" in communist regimes and liberal democracies. The label "political art" is in general used to designate a wide variety of art productions, practices and art activities. What is political in art? The answer is all the more disputed that politics itself is a conflictive term. After the Second World War, opposition or support given to the expansion of the capitalist/corporatist culture were expressed via a multitude of ways of "making art politically". In a liberal democracy, art is seen and used as a tool to confront the antagonisms of reality. On the contrary, in totalitarian regimes, "making art politically" means that art is seen and used both as a weapon to distort reality in order to legitimate power and as a way of expressing otherness ("underground", "dissident art" from totalitarian regimes).

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISSN: 1582-4551
• Umfang: Seite(n): 647-660
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Studia Politica: Romanian Political Science Review, 11(4)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: Politikwissenschaft ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie ; politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur ; Kunst ; Politik ; Kommunismus ; politische Macht ; Demokratie ; Opposition

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Asavei, Marina Alina
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-446532
• Rechteinformation: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ