Official culture
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:"instead of being a good servant of the state in the rank and file of the administration and extolling conventional virtues in his vocational writings (if write he must), composed extremely arrogant and extremely independent and extremely wicked verse in which a dangerous freedom of thought was evident in the novelty of his versification, in the audacity of his sensual fancy, and in his propensity for making fun of major and minor tyrants." --[[Vladimir Nabokov]] (1981) ''[[Lectures on Russian Literature]]'', lecture on ''Russian Writers, Censors, and Readers'', pp.13-4 | :"instead of being a good servant of the state in the rank and file of the administration and extolling conventional virtues in his vocational writings (if write he must), composed extremely arrogant and extremely independent and extremely wicked verse in which a dangerous freedom of thought was evident in the novelty of his versification, in the audacity of his sensual fancy, and in his propensity for making fun of major and minor tyrants." --[[Vladimir Nabokov]] (1981) ''[[Lectures on Russian Literature]]'', lecture on ''Russian Writers, Censors, and Readers'', pp.13-4 | ||
==Patronage== | ==Patronage== | ||
- | In [[Western art]], artists' patrons have been the [[church]] in the [[Middle Ages]]; the [[court]]s in the Renaissance and the [[bourgeoisie]] (the new middle class) in the [[Enlightenment]] era. During the 20th century private patrons were joined by state funded [[arts council]]s and museums. See [[patronage]] | + | In [[Western art]], artists' patrons have been the [[church]] in the [[Middle Ages]]; the [[Court (royal) |court]]s in the Renaissance and the [[bourgeoisie]] (the new middle class) in the [[Enlightenment]] era. During the 20th century private patrons were joined by state funded [[arts council]]s and museums. See [[patronage]] |
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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Official culture is the culture that receives social legitimation or institutional support in a given society. Official culture is usually identified with bourgeoisie culture. For revolutionary Guy Debord, official culture is a "rigged game", where conservative powers forbid subversive ideas to have direct access to the public discourse, and where such ideas are integrated only after being trivialized and sterilized.
A widespread observation is that a great talent has a free spirit. For instance Alexander Pushkin, which some scholars regard as Russia's first great writer, attracted the mad irritation of the Russian officialdom and particularly of the Tsar, since he
- "instead of being a good servant of the state in the rank and file of the administration and extolling conventional virtues in his vocational writings (if write he must), composed extremely arrogant and extremely independent and extremely wicked verse in which a dangerous freedom of thought was evident in the novelty of his versification, in the audacity of his sensual fancy, and in his propensity for making fun of major and minor tyrants." --Vladimir Nabokov (1981) Lectures on Russian Literature, lecture on Russian Writers, Censors, and Readers, pp.13-4
Patronage
In Western art, artists' patrons have been the church in the Middle Ages; the courts in the Renaissance and the bourgeoisie (the new middle class) in the Enlightenment era. During the 20th century private patrons were joined by state funded arts councils and museums. See patronage
See also
- Academic painting
- Arts and politics
- Arts council
- Art world economics
- Censorship
- Cultural policy
- Degenerate art
- Dictator of the arts
- High culture
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Officialdom
- Patronage
- Public art
- Social realism
- State funding