Picasso/Marx and socialist realism in France /

This is an important dialectical reappraisal of Picasso's art and politics in the light of Marxist theory of his own time and contemporary critical debates.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Sarah, 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Series:Value, art, politics ; 8.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Picasso to Marx : art moves to the red bolt
  • 14 July : a stage curtain for the popular front
  • Guernica : agit-prop and the grand style
  • La Charnier or Buchenwald? Communism and the Holocaust
  • Stalin Cheers. Responses to the bomb
  • Massacre in Korea, massacres in Algeria
  • Godless Picasso : 'From Marx to Stalin'
  • Success and failure? Picasso in Moscow/Aragon in Paris.