Political Blind Spots: Reading the Ideology of Images

by Raphael Sassower, Louis Cicotello

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739112618
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/02/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.35(d)

About the Author

Raphael Sassower is Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Louis Cicotello is Professor of Visual Arts, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Artistic Predicament of Ideological Complicity Chapter 2 The Visual Framing of Fascism and Democracy Chapter 3 The Universal Faces of Art Chapter 4 The Pedagogical Predicament

Editorial Reviews

Discussing art as a function of politics, this book offers a fresh perspective on the place of art in our lives and our society. Writing in a direct and accessible manner, Sassower and Cicotelli bring clarity to a complex range of materials and philosophical positions.

Adam J. Lerner

In an important and ground-breaking analysis, Sassower and Cicotello dissect the social power of imagery, from art to propaganda. Now more than ever images shape and control our lives, and this book points in a new direction, perhaps toward a new discipline, for understanding them. From politics and economics to structures of the mind, the context and appeal of art is examined through a radical social/aesthetic approach. The right questions are asked—about interests, culture, beauty—and a deep reading of images emerges, a reading increasingly essential for our time.

Will Wright

...instructors of art and their students will especially benefit from this thought-provoking and nuanced book.

Bridges - Anthony Birch

...instructors of art and their students will especially benefit from this thought-provoking and nuanced book.
— Anthony Birch, Gainesville, Georgia

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