PICASSO AND THE POLITICS OF VISUAL REPRESENTATION

This book focuses on the lesser known (and admired) political Picasso of the period after 1944. In the decades after joining the F rench Communist Party in late 1944 at the end of World War Two, Picasso produced a body of work connected directly, if in complex an d varied ways, to his left-wing political beliefs and continued affiliation to a Republican Spain destroyed by General Francos fasc ist victory in the Spanish Civil War. The book draws together dynamic scholars from Europe and the USA examining facets of this era and Picassos...[Read more]