{"id":784,"date":"2025-07-14T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/?p=784"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:46:20","slug":"eric-mishaud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/eric-mishaud\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-accent-color has-text-color\"><strong>Eric Michaud<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Propaganda, Art &amp; Advertising : How to Produce the Future<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>9 May 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The role played by images in propaganda is generally considered to be a deliberate lie involving the falsification of a supposedly \u201cobjective\u201d reality.&nbsp;I believe instead that one should consider propaganda as an instrument for the construction of reality.&nbsp;Just like art and advertising, propaganda aims to produce a new reality, not to conceal the present one.&nbsp;The example of National Socialism makes this clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Required reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacques Ellul, some pages of&nbsp;<em>Propaganda<\/em>&nbsp;(1962)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oscar Wilde, \u00ab&nbsp;The Decay of Lying&nbsp;\u00bb (<em>Intentions<\/em>, 1889)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric Michaud,&nbsp;<em>The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany<\/em>, pages from chap. II (1996)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eric Michaud<\/strong> is Directeur d\u2019\u00e9tudes \u00e9m\u00e9rite at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.&nbsp;His research interests lie in the relationships between art, politics, propaganda, the anthropological notion of \u00ab race&nbsp;\u00bb and the notion of the \u00ab New Man&nbsp;\u00bb.&nbsp;His books include&nbsp;<em>Les invasions barbares. Une g\u00e9n\u00e9alogie de l\u2019histoire de l\u2019art<\/em>&nbsp;(Paris, Gallimard, 2015, English translation MIT Press, October Books, 2019&nbsp;:&nbsp;<em>The Barbarian Invasions. A Genealogy of the History of Art<\/em>),&nbsp;<em>The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany<\/em>&nbsp;(Stanford University Press, 2004), and forthcoming in May 2025:&nbsp;<em>La Ruse de Jacob. L\u2019\u00e9levage des humains et le mod\u00e8le de l\u2019art<\/em>&nbsp;(Paris, Gallimard).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Michaud Propaganda, Art &amp; Advertising : How to Produce the Future 9 May 2025 The role played by images in propaganda is generally considered to be a deliberate lie involving the falsification of a supposedly \u201cobjective\u201d reality.&nbsp;I believe instead that one should consider propaganda as an instrument for the construction of reality.&nbsp;Just like art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bildhauereiundraumstrategien.akbild.ac.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}