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title: "New strategies for political art – Part I"
date: 2018-05-23
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/new-strategies-for-political-art-50-years-1968-part-i-political-art-now-context-en/"
description: "Politically committed art as we know it today would be almost inconceivable were it not for the events that took place around 1968. We too, so we are often told, now find ourselves in a time of upheaval once again. So what exactly does political art today have to do with political art back then?"
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Header_Schirn_Presse_Power_to_the_People_Julius_von_Bismarck.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# New strategies for political art – Part I