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politics 


plis . . .


 city . . .
politics 


                 plis . . .


                 city . . .


                 the place
(and the governing institutions of the place)
    where the dmos (the people) live
Plato:
Politeia
Plato:
                        Politeia


the conditions and rights of the citizen, or citizenship,
            analogous to the Latin civitas.
[Plato did not write The Republic . . . ]




         politics, the political . . .


having to do with government and governing


       [politics is about power . . . ]
The Artworld is political . . .


      It governs the
         definition,
       dissemination,
         evaluation,
          Economy
            of art.
The Artworld is political . . .


         It governs the
            definition,
          dissemination,
            evaluation,
             economy
               of art.
        Because after all,
What do we know of the artwork?
The Artworld is political . . .


         It governs the
            definition,
          dissemination,
            evaluation,
             economy
               of art.
        Because after all,
What do we know of the artwork?


           The artwork.
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socius
socius
  becomes polis


   when values
are institutionalized
socius
  becomes polis


    when values
are institutionalized

(when art becomes aesthetic
   it becomes political)
Example:


Jacques-Louis David
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1. The Old 安看姻鉛糸
Jacques-Louis
    David,
 The Oath of
the Horatii,
   1784
monarchy (Louis XVI)


stability
loyalty
traditional patriarchal
values
traditional gender
politics
neoclassical style
grand, dramatic
gestures
1789
2. The Revolutionary 安看姻鉛糸
Jacques-Louis
David, The Death of
Marat,

      1793
revolutionary
government
martyrdom
simplicity
austerity
anti-monarchism
religious imagery
1799-1800
3. The New 安看姻鉛糸
Jacques-Louis
David,
Bonaparte
Crossing the
Alps, 1801
hero worship
dynamic energy
force(s) of nature
size of figures
security
trust
leadership
1804
4. The New Old 安看姻鉛糸
Jacques-Louis David,

The Coronation of
Napoleon, 1806
royal pageant
opulence
huge scale
stability
traditional
patriarchial
values
politics . . .
Francisco Goya,

    The Family of
Charles IV,

      1800
Francisco Goya,

Third of May, 1808,

1814
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                         Eug竪ne Delacroix,
                         Liberty Leading the People,
                         1830
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WEVE ALREADY LOOKED AT SOME
          TIMELY

     AMERICAN
         EXAMPLES
Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother

1936
Robert Frank

Trolley, New Orleans

               1955
Thomas Ball

The Emancipation Group

1874
politics . . .
d a
                     a n
            a g
        politics . . .


      o p
p r
. . . if art is manipulation
. . . if art is manipulation


   then propaganda is
manipulation through art
propaganda
 propagare . . .
propaganda
                   propagare . . .



   to circuate, disseminate, or spread the faith


(In Catholicism, instruction for foreign missionaries)
propaganda

this is how it started . . .
propaganda

  this is how
propaganda
propaganda

this is how it started . . .
By the 19th and early 20th centuries . . .
propaganda
the systematic setting down and spreading
                    of
      (generally false or misleading)
           ideas or information
           to support or injure

             an institution, person,   cause
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. . . not intended to mislead, but to make a strong political point . . .
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Thomas Ball

The Emancipation Group

1874
Perhaps not
  intended to
 mislead, but
 consider the
politics of the
       image




                  Thomas Ball

                  The Emancipation Group

                  1874
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