In order to better understand the conditions of the twenty-first century Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello revisit the twentieth century in Political Blind Spots: Reading the Ideology of Images. Sassower and Cicotello revisit some of the most significant periods in artand politics in the twentieth century paying close attention to the relationship between aesthetics and politics.

Raphael Sassower is Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Louis Cicotello is Professor of Visual Arts, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Chapter 1 The Artistic Predicament of Ideological Complicity
Chapter 2 The Visual Framing of Fascism and Democracy
Chapter 3 The Universal Faces of Art
Chapter 4 The Pedagogical Predicament