The contributions could address the following topics:
- Representation, propaganda, image-making in European states
- Art and changes of state borders
- Art commissioning policies
- Control of art production through censorship
- State-sponsored artists
- State-funded education of artists
- Public sculpture and the state
- Public space furnishing campaigns
- Preservation of architectural heritage
- Formal and informal education and promotion of artistic and cultural literacy
- State policies and the acquisition of artworks for public museums and other institutions
- Architecture and state authorities
- Interstate artistic projects
- Art and war
- Art in totalitarian and democratic regimes
- Artists as social critics
- Church and public officials as art commissioners
- Institutionalization of knowledge, culture and arts
- Cultural and educational policies, national identity and visual arts
- State Policy and Strategies of Designing Everyday Life
- Art market, illegal trade and counterfeit art
- National representation through state funded exibitions