Totalitarian Art in the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy, and the People's Republic of China

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Summary: Art of oppression
Review: Igor golomstock Intelligently explores the frightening aesthetic similarities of four of the Worlds worst dictatorships and totalitarian cultures.And how they used(and abused)the Traditional western Realist tradition in painting and sculpture,and the architecture of greece and rome to oppressive and soul destroying ends.He shows that the far right and the far left have more in common than we would like to admit.If you are interested in the arts and how politics(or religion)can twist and subvert them,read this perceptive book.