Art and propaganda in the twentieth century : the political image in the age of mass culture / Toby Clark.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-167) and index.

Revolution, reform, and modernity, 1900-1939. Brecht and the critical audience -- "Deeds not words" : women's propaganda and the avant-garde -- Murals and national history -- Radical art on the grand scale -- Art, propaganda, and fascism. Fascism and the aestheticization of politics -- Fascism and archaism -- Nazism and the avant-garde -- Fascist interpretations of the body -- Propaganda in the communist state. "Organizing the psyche of the masses" -- The theory and practice of socialist realism -- Emblems of Soviet heroism -- Propaganda at war. "This means you" : recruiting images -- Saturation and censorship -- Targeting the enemy -- War on television -- Remembering war : memorials and anti-monuments -- The art of protest : from Vietnam to AIDS. The renewal of dada -- Paris '68 -- Third cinema : "The camera is a rifle" -- Feminism(s) -- Propaganda against propaganda -- Against silence and invisibility.