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.
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Positive and Negative Integration: The First World War in France and Germany
- 2. Between Nationalism and Communism: Diego Rivera and Mexican Muralism
- 3. National and Degenerate Art: The Third Reich
- 4. Internal and External Enemies: The Cold War
- 5. From Maoism to Capitalist Communism: The People’s Republic of China
- 6. The In-Between Space: Kara Walker’s Shadow Murals
- 7. A Heavy Heritage: Monuments in the former Soviet Bloc
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of names
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