In Art and Politics, Segal explores the collision of politics and art in seven enticing essays. The book explores the position of art and artists under a number of different political regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, traveling around the world to consider how art and politics have interacted and influenced each other in different conditions.
Joes Segal takes you on a journey to the Third Reich, where Emil Nolde supported the regime while being called degenerate; shows us Diego Rivera creating Marxist murals in Mexico and the United States for anti-Marxist governments and clients; ties Jackson Pollock's drip paintings in their Cold War context to both the FBI and the CIA; and considers the countless images of Mao Zedong in China as unlikely witnesses of radical political change.|This book explores the position of art and artists under a number of different political regimes of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, traveling around the world to consider how art and politics have interacted and influenced each other in different conditions.
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- "[ Segal's] command of ideas and sources is nothing short of magnificent, and nearly every page bursts with important, elegantly written and nuanced observations. If you're ready to de-reify your brain, read this." - Eric A. Gordon, People's World, 2016
- Radio interview with KCRW Radio . Read the accompanying blog post here
Introduction
7
(10)
1 Positive and Negative Integration
The First World War in France and Germany
17
(14)
2 Between Nationalism and Communism
Diego Rivera and Mexican Muralism
31
(14)
3 National and Degenerate Art
The Third Reich
45
(16)
4 Internal and External Enemies
The Cold War
61
(18)
5 From Maoism to Capitalist Communism
The People's Republic of China
79
(20)
6 The In-Between Space
Kara Walker's Shadow Murals
99
(12)
7 A Heavy Heritage
Monuments in the former Soviet Bloc
111
(18)
Conclusion
129
(8)
Notes
137
(16)
Bibliography
153
(10)
Index of names
163
Joes Segal is chief curator of the Wende Museum in Los Angeles and Assistant Professor of Cultural History at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
