Course Description
‘The Art as Persuasion Online course focuses on the cultural and political appropriation of visual and performance art for the purposes of public conformity, propaganda, and dissent 1935-present day. In this course, we examine how a.m.bitions of power and the development of certain artistic (visual and performance) canons were mutually influenced; what rebel vs. state-sponsored art can tell us about ruling regimes and power relations; how propaganda in art affected society and historical events; and how our own preconceptions and contemporary concerns about propaganda, media, and political manipulation color our own approach to recent history and current culture.