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Fascist Art
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Fascist Art
Discusses Susan Sontag's use of films and photographs of Leni Riefenstahl to apply her aesthetic principles. Mythic imagery in "Triumph of the Will."
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages) |
2 sources |
2001
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"Susan Sontag uses the artistry of film director and later photographer Leni Riefenstahl as an example to analyze the idea of fascist art. Sontag finds that many works of art from the fascist era try to impart a certain idea of beauty that is itself a propagandistic and ideological political statement. Sontag offers an extensive description of fascist art, but in some ways her generalizations can be applied to nearly all works in some fashion and so raises the issue of whether she has actually identified a different style or done so in a way that is sufficiently differentiating."Sontag begins by referring to Leni Riefenstahl's book of photographs, The Last of the Nuba. Sontag finds a number of outright lies in what Riefenstahl claims about her life and her work on the cover and traces these lies to show how Riefenstahl..."
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