Repressive Regimes, Aesthetic States, and Arts of Resistance

by Michael Lane Bruner

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433101084
• ISBN13: 9781433101083
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"