Picasso and the politics of visual representation: war and peace in the era of the Cold War and since

This book focuses on the lesser known (and admired) 'political Picasso' of the period after 1944. In the decades after joining the French Communist Party in late 1944 at the end of World War Two, Picasso produced a body of work connected directly, if in complex and varied ways, to his left...

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Other Authors: Harris, Jonathan 1960- (Editor), Koeck, Richard 1969- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool Liverpool Univ. Press 2013
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Tate Liverpool critical forum 13
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Summary:This book focuses on the lesser known (and admired) 'political Picasso' of the period after 1944. In the decades after joining the French Communist Party in late 1944 at the end of World War Two, Picasso produced a body of work connected directly, if in complex and varied ways, to his left-wing political beliefs and continued affiliation to a Republican Spain destroyed by General Franco's fascist victory in the Spanish Civil War. The book draws together dynamic scholars from Europe and the USA examining facets of this era and Picasso's place within it in a variety of innovative ways developing art historical, critical and social-theoretical themes. Contributors reconsider, for example, the significance and legacy of Picasso's 1937 'Guernica' as a talisman of quality and vanguardism for later works by the artist concerned with, for example, the US invasion of Korea in 1950 (Harris, Craven, Lopez), the and the Cold War atomic and ideological standoff between the West and the USSR (Morris, Wilson)
Physical Description:183 S. Ill.
ISBN:9781846318757

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