Mexican Muralist, International Marxist

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Focusing on the late murals of David Alfaro Siqueiros, this book explores his role as a pivotal communist painter of the twentieth century. It examines how his innovative and provocative works aimed to inspire political analysis and emotional engagement within the working-class movement. By situating Siqueiros within an international context, the text reveals the complexities of his artistic dogmatism, highlighting his commitment to representing struggles of the oppressed while utilizing abstraction to convey historical movements in a Marxist framework.