"Septemvriiche" newspaper as a visual representation of the state-party-art-culture relations in Bulgaria 1946-1993

Abstract

This study lays in the general fields of “arts and politics” and “arts and state” relationships. These indisputably broad fields are restricted in this work by concentrating on a specific historical period (1946-1993), on a particular country (Bulgaria) and an actual event – the existence of “Septemvriiche” newspaper. In the first half of the work, the reader is introduced to the general historical and political circumstances and artistic events of the time. Consequently, the relations between the state and the party from one side and the sphere of art and culture from the other are shown by concentrating on the visual and textual appearance of “Septemvriiche” newspaper and the particular political and historical facts reflected on its pages.