Arena forum: Questioning art and politics

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Abstract:

Whenever the subject of art and politics is raised, sooner or later Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ comes up. It has become a touchstone for political art, a standard by which other attempts are measured and usually seen to be lacking. ‘It’s no ‘Guernica”, you hear, meaning that the political art on offer is too crude, too reductive, lacking in grandness or complexity, or it’s too mimetic, not cubist enough and so on. That’s one part of the debate around art and politics, the degree to which art can be political and still be effective as art.

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