ART IN THE SERVICE OF POLITICS

• Politics of art patronage (by different social classes and political structures: aristocracy, bourgeoisie, state and local governments)
• Influence of political bodies on art, architecture and urban planning
• Role of art, architecture and urban planning in representing regimes – totalitarian, democratic and other
• Shaping national styles and visual identities
• Role of art and art exhibitions in cultural policies and national representation
• Promoting dominant ideologies through different media (painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic art and design, photography, drawings, caricature etc)
• Influence of economic and social policies on art, architecture and urban planning
• Religious communities, politics and art
• Damnatio memorie – removal and destruction of artistic heritage
• Artistic heritage and military conflicts
• Politically motivated restoration of monuments
• Public sculpture and the creation of monument cult in the 19th and 20th century
• Traditionalism in art and political elites
• Art and revolution

ART AND ARTIST IN OPPOSITION 

• Caricature and politics
• Artistic production as reflection of opposition to dominant political structures
• Avant-garde art as a catalyst of change
• Socially engaged art
• Subversion in art and photography
• Gender and art (production and representation)

WORKS OF ART IN MUSEUM

• Museum functions and representation (collection,
preservation,communication of art works and discursive practices)
• Museum displays and the production and reception of power narratives
• Influence of market-oriented logic of production on collecting and displaying in art museums
• Wider social perception and reception of power narratives (in art museums/ museums exhibitions showing art works)