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Rumpus Book ClubArtistic Oppression
Where mythologizing dictators and threatening artists intersect, totalitarian art was born.
Find out about this cultural phenomenon and its many historical/contemporary examples.
“The crucial element in the creation of totalitarian culture was the involvement of the state, not indirectly, through the financing of culture, but directly, by imposing a ‘dictatorship of taste,’ as the Russian futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky enthusiastically called it.”
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