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- Three demands power places on art:
- Glory and triumph of power itself victory arches etc pomp and gigantism face of power they wished arts to present
- Public face of art reflecting supposed participation monuments build to incite patriotism
- Educational propagandist teach, inform, indoctrinate
- Not for nothing did the arts in 19th century France come under Ministry of Public Instruction
- Ideological and practical grounds favored arts appeal to public, rarely top priority for creative talents innovation, experimentation, creativity in Italy prize for best painting went to Listening to a speech by Il Duce on the radio
- What power destroyed or stifled in the era of dictators is more evident than what it achieved regimes better at stopping undesirable works than finding goof art to express it.
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