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Picasso / Marx
Sarah Wilson
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Description for Picasso / Marx
Paperback. An important dialectical reappraisal of Picasso's art and politics in the light of Marxist theory of his own time and contemporary critical debates. Series: Value: Art: Politics. Num Pages: 345 pages, 33 colour illustrations, 36 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACX; AFC; AGB; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 588.
Marx’s ideas are now subject to worldwide reappraisal, with conferences attracting the most important critical thinkers on the left. Marx and the Aesthetic (Amsterdam, 2012) reappraised Marx in the context of his own creative inspirations and contemporary art today. Max Raphael’s Proudhon, Marx, Picasso (1933), published in Paris by the exiled German art historian, a contemporary of Walter Benjamin, included the first attempt at a Marxist critique of Picasso. His book appeared when the global crisis of capitalism coincided with the birth of fascism. Picasso/Marx looks backwards and perhaps forwards, resituating Picasso in dialectical terms. His context as player in ... Read more
Marx’s ideas are now subject to worldwide reappraisal, with conferences attracting the most important critical thinkers on the left. Marx and the Aesthetic (Amsterdam, 2012) reappraised Marx in the context of his own creative inspirations and contemporary art today. Max Raphael’s Proudhon, Marx, Picasso (1933), published in Paris by the exiled German art historian, a contemporary of Walter Benjamin, included the first attempt at a Marxist critique of Picasso. His book appeared when the global crisis of capitalism coincided with the birth of fascism. Picasso/Marx looks backwards and perhaps forwards, resituating Picasso in dialectical terms. His context as player in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
345
Condition
New
Series
Value: Art: Politics
Number of Pages
345
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381922
SKU
V9781781381922
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About Sarah Wilson
Sarah Wilson is Professor of Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Reviews for Picasso / Marx
Reviews 'Long awaited by scholars, this is a work of astonishing verve and scope by unquestionably the leading authority on left-wing artistic movements of the period.' Michael Kelly