Pablo Picasso
Subtitle: The Communist Years
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780300082517
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists; Marxism & Communism; Painting & paintings; Communism; Individual Painters - 20th Century; Biography & Autobiography; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Spain; European; History - Abstract; Individual Artist; Art / Individual Artist; Picasso, Pablo; Artists, Architects, Photographers; 1881-1973; 20th century; France; History; Parti communiste francais; Parti communiste franðcais; Picasso, Pablo,; Political activity; Political aspects
Description: "Utley provides the first account in English of the intricate relations between the French Communist Party and its artists in the years immediately following the Liberation. She then examines in detail the role Picasso played within the Communist agenda, his financial and moral support, his active participation at Party events, and his artistic endorsement of the Party's most important ideological positions during the Cold War years.

Addressing Picasso's unfailing loyalty in the face of both the Party's untenable political positions and the opposition within the Party to his art, this book offers new insight into aspects of the artist's thought and art that have been little considered before."--BOOK JACKET.