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Political blind spots : reading the ideology of images
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- Creator
- Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 131 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780739111376, 073911137X, 9780739112618, 0739112619
- OCLC
- ocm61687816
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121) and index.
- 1. The artistic predicament of ideological complicity -- The ends of ideology -- The ideology of the avant-garde -- The ultimate hoax : the artist as outsider -- The ideology of art, the art of ideology -- 2. The visual framing of fascism and democracy -- Ideology as myth-making -- Revolutionary promises : the Soviet Union and Mexico -- The artistic faces of democracy (and fascism) -- 3. The universal faces of art -- Reductionism in the name of universalism -- Neurath's isotypes -- The Bauhaus's dream of universal access -- Do national identities look alike? -- 4. The pedagogical predicament -- In search of a middle ground -- Abstract memories : recalling reality -- Sanctifying a national identity : authenticity -- Pedagogy as ideology -- The future of aesthetic pedagogy