To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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The revolution that shocked revolutionaries
GORDON PARSONS recommends a new book which gives a graphic account of the rise and fall of the Paris Commune
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune Of 1871
by John Merriman
(Yale University Press, £10.99)
THIS blow-by-blow account of the rise and fall of the 1871 Paris Commune is, at times, almost too painful to read.
The barbaric savagery employed by the bourgeoisie in annihilating the attempt — for the first time in the modern history of the working class — to organise a government in the name of a new social order can only have been surpassed by the nazis.
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