Mexican Muralist, International Marxist: David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1941–74

David Alfaro Siqueiros was perhaps the most important communist painter of the twentieth century. This book, the first sustained engagement with Siqueiros’s work in the English language, focuses on the artist’s late murals, which are both aesthetically innovative and politically provocative. It places Siqueiros in an international context, revealing that the dogmatism he has been charged with was in reality a complex phenomenon. It provided a foundation for – rather than an obstacle to – his efforts to create an art embedded in the day-to-day concerns and theoretical debates of the world-wide mass movement he saw himself as a part of.Front MatterDedicationContentsList of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroductionThe war muralsCuauhtémoc in the time of StalinTransition, contradiction, innovationHistory at ChapultepecScience, revolution, and revisionOld Left, New Left, and national culture at the Jorge Negrete TheaterWaiting for revolutionConclusionBibliographyIndex Front Matter Dedication Contents List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction The war murals Cuauhtémoc in the time of Stalin Transition, contradiction, innovation History at Chapultepec Science, revolution, and revision Old Left, New Left, and national culture at the Jorge Negrete Theater Waiting for revolution Conclusion Bibliography Index