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Title Culture as weapon : the art of influence in everyday life / Nato Thompson.
Publisher Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Description xii, 272 pages ; 22 cm


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 EI-Adult Collection  700.103 THO Nearby on shelf  30626003097389 02-20-18  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "One of the country's leading activist curators explores how corporations and governments have used art and culture to mystify and manipulate us. The production of culture was once the domain of artists, but beginning in the early 1900s, the emerging fields of public relations, advertising and marketing transformed the way the powerful communicate with the rest of us. A century later, the tools are more sophisticated than ever, the onslaught more relentless. In Culture as Weapon, acclaimed curator and critic Nato Thompson reveals how institutions use art and culture to ensure profits and constrain dissent--and shows us that there are alternatives. An eye-opening account of the way advertising, media, and politics work today, Culture as Weapon offers a radically new way of looking at our world"-- Provided by publisher.
Other edition Online version: Thompson, Nato, author. Culture as weapon Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, 2017 9781612195742
Subject Arts and society -- History -- 21st century.
Arts -- Political aspects -- History -- 21st century.
Social influence.
Mass media and culture.
ISBN 9781612195735
1612195733\