Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The propaganda IMAGE still powerful -if not " art "

Not an artistic work ?    I read somewhere that great art is always rebellious if not revolutionary. An artist with no sense of the ” social lie ” is almost lacking a needed 6th sense. But great art always rises above crude propaganda serving only a fleeting moment in time.
That is why the ” proletarian literature ” of 1930s -corrupted by the Stalinist school of ” art ” -is almost unreadable today-when the Socialist truth is also an orphan.
Still the propaganda IMAGE is a powerful weapon in the struggle for human dignity. The mutilated , horrific body of the murdered black boy Emmett Till on display for public mourning helped win the struggle for Civil Rights in America more than 50 years ago.
[http://radicalrons.blogspot.com ]
Mutilated body of Emmett Till viewed at a public funeral

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