Contemporary art is increasingly concerned with swaying the opinions of its viewier. To do so, the art employs various strategies to convey a political message.

Murray Edelman holds a unique and distinguished position in American political science. For decades one of the few serious scholars to question dominant rationa

A major issue in the relation of art to the rest of society is the question of how art penetrates politics. From the perspective of most art scholars, this is a

This book examines fundamental questions about funding for the arts: why should governments provide funding for the arts? What do the arts contribute to daily l

Victor Arnautoff reigned as San Francisco's leading mural painter during the New Deal era. Yet that was only part of an astonishing life journey from Tsarist of