Open AccessIntroduction to the Special Issue on Art and Politics
Author(s) -
Camelia Errouane
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal for history culture and modernity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2213-0624
DOI - 10.18352/hcm.509
Subject(s) - politics , enlightenment , aesthetics , sociology , political science , media studies , visual arts , social science , art , law , epistemology , philosophy
Art and politics are entwined in complex ways. Artworks gain political significance in dynamic networks and social processes that include the artists, the commissioners, their audiences and, not to forget, the historians who study them. This article traces some of the aspects that have defined the relationship between art and politics in Europe since the Enlightenment.