Imagine an album that opens with a singer reciting an Edgar Allan Poe poem in an exotic Germanic accent over a lush symphonic ...
Art is art and propaganda is propaganda. Correct? But maybe it’s not that clear cut. George Orwell, the foe of dictators and novelist who gave the world his dystopian fiction, “1984,” observed that ...
The line between art and propaganda can be hard to draw. For many of us, Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, a mourning of the wanton destruction of Francisco Franco’s Spain, is a long way from Leni Riefenstahl ...
Our writer sits down with Purdue Art History professor Beth Woodward to explore the under-appreciated nuances of Renaissance art.
Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...
Not even 70 years after Italy unified, Benito Mussolini’s staged march on Rome so unnerved the government that King Victor ...
Nazi propaganda will be touring the country in 2013 to educate the country about biased political messages in the media. Heather Sealy Lineberry, senior curator and associate director of the ASU Art ...
This Centennial Commemoration (1917-1918) documents the propaganda techniques utilized by federal, state and local governments to draw every citizen into the European conflict. On a local level, as ...
London (CNN) — A graffiti wall in London’s bustling street art hub of Brick Lane has become an unlikely canvas for protest messages against China’s authoritarian rule, after it was whitewashed and ...