Political Blind Spots: Reading the Ideology of Images Book

1	The artistic predicament of ideological complicity	1
	The ends of ideology	1
	The ideology of the avant-garde	7
	The ultimate hoax : the artist as outsider	14
	The ideology of art, the art of ideology	18
2	The visual framing of fascism and democracy	25
	Ideology as myth-making	25
	Revolutionary promises : the Soviet Union and Mexico	38
	The artistic faces of democracy (and fascism)	48
3	The universal faces of art	63
	Reductionism in the name of universalism	63
	Neurath's isotypes	68
	The Bauhaus's dream of universal access	75
	Do national identities look alike?	78
4	The pedagogical predicament	89
	In search of a middle ground	89
	Abstract memories : recalling reality	91
	Sanctifying a national identity : authenticity	97
	Pedagogy as ideology	100
	The future of aesthetic pedagogy	111