Picasso and the Politics of Visual Representation: War and Peace in the Era of the Cold War and Since

(Picasso, Pablo) Jonathan Harris (Editor), Richard Koeck (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1846318750 / ISBN 13: 9781846318757

Editore: -Liverpool University Press -, 2013

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First edition first printing 2013. 183 pages. Illustrated. Paperback. Fine. 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 Cold War atomic and ideological standoff between the West and the USSR (Morris, Wilson), the continuation of struggle against Franco's regime in Spain (Barreiro-Lopez) and connections between the avowedly political and propagandistic works and Picasso's earlier cubist, collage and surrealist periods (Cubitt, Fijalkowski). All authors pose related questions concerned with the significance of Picasso's political works today, and ask how images and personas of the artist have developed and been appropriated by many others with their own distinct political agendas. How might art today be 'political,' or not be capable of being political, in ways and with objectives that Picasso and those in his time in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s would have recognised? We are specialists in Artists Monographs, Catalogues and Illustrated items. All items are as described and dispatched within 24 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with over 38 years experience, you may order with confidence. Other titles by this artist maybe in stock, please ask for our list or link.

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• Titolo: Picasso and the Politics of Visual Representation: War and Peace in the Era of the Cold War and Since
• Editore: -Liverpool University Press -
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1846318750
• ISBN 13: 9781846318757
• Rilegatura: Brossura
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  • Artists: 20th Century

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Riassunto

For decades after he joined the French Communist Party in 1944, Picasso produced works that connected directly—if in complex and varied ways—to his left-wing political beliefs. Picasso and the Politics of Visual Representation brings together scholars from Europe and the United States to revaluate these later, more politically-driven paintings. Looking at topics such as the legacy of his famed “Guernica,” the Cold War atomic and ideological standoff between the West and the USSR, and the struggle against the Franco fascist regime in Spain, the contributors avail themselves of the most recent scholarship to recast Picasso not simply as a leader of artistic change but an agent of political discourse. 

Informazioni sugli autori

Jonathan Harris is professor of global art and design studies and director of research at the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton.He is the author of several books and most recently coeditor of Regenerating Culture and Society, also published by the University of Liverpool Press.He lives in Southampton, UK. Richard Koeck is a senior lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Liverpool. He is most recently the author of Cine | Scapes. He lives in Liverpool, UK. 

Jonathan Harris is Professor in Global Art and Design Studies and Director of Research at Winchester School of Art, the University of Southampton. Richard Koeck is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Liverpool.