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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 the little-known Communist West, centred on Paris, brings into play the Marxist theory of his times. From the 1930's to the 1970's, Marx, Lenin and Stalin's own theories on art and literature were discussed together with Plekhanov, Bogdanov and Zhdanov. John Berger's Success and Failure of Picasso (1965), dedicated to Raphael, offered a critique of Picasso's art and Communist politics within the lifetime of the painter. Picasso/Marx presents a critical view of Picasso to his new audiences from Melbourne to Moscow.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political ideologies

• Full title: Picasso / Marx
• Author: Sarah Wilson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 345
• EAN: 9781846319396
• ISBN: 1846319390
• ID: 01995367
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Weight: 702 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 153 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. January 2014

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