ESSAY ON: The Arts & Political Power

Number of Pages 4

This research paper: A 4 page research paper that discusses the relationship between the arts (focusing principally on architecture) and political power. The writer argues that from the dawn of history, art has been the handmaiden of those who possessed political power. For an artist to function, he had to have a benefactor, that is, someone who had sufficient wealth to subsidize an artistic enterprise. Throughout early history, wealth of this magnitude was possessed only by the state. The writer draws examples from Egyptian, Roman and Christian history. Bibliography lists 3 sources.


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