And why do Rivera's murals transcend their propagandistic purpose in a way that works by his contemporaries don't?

It saw another decline in the middle of the 20th century when the Francoist dictatorship tried to use it for propagandistic purposes.

Show trials tend to be retributive rather than correctional justice and also conducted for propagandistic purposes.

The plans varied in efficacy and intention, from propagandistic purposes to effective disruption of the Cuban government and economy.

Much of "Bang Rajan" has a bluntly propagandistic purpose.

The East Germans subsidized the arts lavishly for propagandistic purposes.

"Our descriptive tools had been used for propagandistic purposes," he says in the documentary "I'm So-So."

These magazines published cartoons and illustrations for educational and propagandistic purposes.

The Book of Revelations, I must confess, is full of mysticism and metaphor, adopted for propagandistic purposes.

Astonishingly, the left's propagandistic purposes have recently demanded even Reagan's rehabilitation in order to attack George W. Bush's intelligence with greater vigor.