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Artpolitik examines the relationship between art and politics, focusing on radical political aesthetics in western culture since the end of the nineteenth century. Drawing from Surrealism, Socialist Realism, the Situationist International, capitalist consumer aesthetics, and critical theory, Neala Schleuning elaborates a social anarchist approach to aesthetics.

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Artpolitik can be the basis of fruitful discussions among artists and activists alike about the role, character andcommunicative value of art in our struggle for a better world. Each period of artistic expression she analyzes, and specifically those that were consciously political, prod us to think about and rethink today's art throughthese lenses. - Wayne Nealis, author, political activist.

Artpolitik can be the basis of fruitful discussions among artists and activists alike about the role, character and<br><br>communicative value of art in our struggle for a better world. Each period of artistic expression she analyzes, <br><br>and specifically those that were consciously political, prod us to think about and rethink today's art through<br><br>these lenses. - Wayne Nealis, author, political activist.

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Neala Schleuning is a writer and educator. She received her PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1978 with an emphasis in political philosophy and intellectual history. Fulbright Scholar to the Russian Federation, she is the author of many articles, higher education policy papers, films and radio productions, and several books, including America: Song We Sang Without Knowing (1983); Idle Hands and Empty Hearts: Work and Freedom in the United States (1990); Women, Community, and the Hormel Strike of 1985-86 (1994); and To Have and to Hold: the Meaning of Ownership in the United States (1997).

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