In order to better understand the conditions of the twenty-first century, Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello revisit the twentieth century in Political Blind Spots Reading the Ideology of Images. Sassower and Cicotello revisit some of the most significant periods in art and politics in the twentieth century paying close attention to the relationship between aesthetics and politics.
In order to better understand the conditions of the twenty-first century, Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello revisit the twentieth century in Politi...
Since the eighteenth century, artists--especially so-called avant-garde artists--have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for their complex position, argue Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello, is the survival of the culture of idolatry in the modern age. In the twentieth century, artists can criticize the worship of material things or they can produce the things themselves. They can paint the scenes of worship of the golden calf--as the German expressionist Emil Nolde did in -Dance Around the Golden Calf- (1910), in which garish exaggerations reflect a condemnation of...
Since the eighteenth century, artists--especially so-called avant-garde artists--have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for ...
Since the eighteenth century, artists--especially so-called avant-garde artists--have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for their complex position, argue Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello, is the survival of the culture of idolatry in the modern age. In the twentieth century, artists can criticize the worship of material things or they can produce the things themselves. They can paint the scenes of worship of the golden calf--as the German expressionist Emil Nolde did in -Dance Around the Golden Calf- (1910), in which garish exaggerations reflect a condemnation of...
Since the eighteenth century, artists--especially so-called avant-garde artists--have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for ...
