Flattery
Peter Burke, 16 September 1982
Le Roi-Machine: Spectacle et Politique au Temps de Louis XIV
by Jean-Marie Apostolidès.
Les Editions de Minuit, 164 pp., £4.50Show More
by Jean-Marie Apostolidès.
Les Editions de Minuit, 164 pp., £4.50Show More
“... between power and imagination, they do not see these relationships in quite the same way. Jean-Marie Apostolidès has written a lucid and elegant, if somewhat superficial, essay on the politics of spectacle. His framework of analysis is Marxist in the Althusserian manner, and his chief concern is with the place of the arts in the ‘state ... ”