Politics
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Politics (from Greek politikos "of, for, or relating to citizens") is the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including actions and mannerisms within civil governments, but also institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply policy.
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Political art
Political art includes anything from anarcho-punk to culture jamming, from political literature to social realism, from political cinema to protest art. The term artivist come to mind. Think the Notre-Dame Affair and The Revolution of Modern Art and the Modern Art of Revolution.
It is the opposite from art for art's sake.
Political satire
Political cinema
Political fiction
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