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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Message from one crisis generation to another
An account of the US literary scene during the 1920s and 1930s economic slump is a valuable source of reference for cultural practitioners today, says JUSTIN THEODRA
DEPRESSION-ERA IMAGE: Photograph of destitute pea-picker and mother of seven Florence Owens Thompson in California, 1936
[Dorothea Lange]
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
The Deep End: The Literary Scene in the Great Depression
by Jason Boog.
(OR Books, £16)
GOING from success to success, with no intimation of the failures in between, literary histories are somewhat akin to CVs.
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