Art and Politics: Between Purity and Propaganda book talk
Sunday, Jun 26, 20164 PM - 6 PMPDT
| The Wende Museum
Culver City, CA, USRelated
Join Wende Museum Chief Curator Dr. Joes Segal book talk for “Art and Politics: Between Purity and Propaganda”.
Art and politics seem worlds apart but are often intertwined in surprising ways. Why did the communist painter Diego Rivera accept commissions from conservative Mexican governments and American capitalists? How did American painter Jackson Pollock become a symbol of the free Western world and of communist cultural infiltration during the Cold War? What do the changing representations of Mao Zedong tell us about the role of art and politics in communist China?
In seven essays, this book explores the role of artists, critics, historians, politicians and secret services in the sometimes tragic, sometimes tragicomic parallels, contradictions and misunderstandings between both worlds.
Light refreshments will be served.
Parking is available in designated spots or on the street.
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