The great majority of Kiefer’s works since his emergence in the late 1960s through the 1990s refer to subjects drawn from Germany and its culture.
culture and history also evoke the uses and misuses to which the visual and verbal propaganda
Ignoring or registering only gently harsh new realities such as the problems of immigration and urban poverty, they shone a positive light on their era.
, they were neither social critics nor reformers and they did not paint radical propaganda
The Julio-Claudians were Roman nobles with an impressive ancestry, but their fondness for the ideals and lifestyle of the old aristocracy created conflicts of interest and duty.
the provinces, in sculpture, gems, and coins, was the chief means of political propaganda
Alsóhrabóc, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Slovakia), 1893–Moscow, 1974
Budapest: Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum és Népművelési Propaganda Iroda, 1978, 3–21.
Münster, 1878–London, 1937
That same year, Flechtheim was vilified in anti-Semitic propaganda advertising the
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early eighteenth centuries, prized by the rich for its artistry and as a tool of propaganda
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Europe—illustrate the contribution that the medium made to the art, liturgy, and propaganda
A hundred years ago, The Met acquired a comprehensive collection of prints by the celebrated artist Albrecht Dürer. This fall, the Museum celebrates Dürer by showing his prints in four exhibitions at The Met Fifth Avenue.
Dürer also played a significant role in creating magnificent printed propaganda,
The Orient—including present-day Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa—exerted its allure on the Western artist’s imagination centuries prior to the turn of the nineteenth century.
Some of the first nineteenth-century Orientalist paintings were intended as propaganda
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Europeans, but also in those of Africans, through an examination of photographic propaganda
