David Craven Books
Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990
By David Craven
"In this book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. The three great upheavals - in Mexico (1910-40), in...
Read MorePoetics and Politics in the Art of Rudolf Baranik
By David Craven
Rudolf Baranik has been a leader of virtually every progressive political movement within the New York art world from the 1960s to the mid-1990s, from the Artists and Writers Protest Group - which...
Read MoreAbstract Expressionism and the Cultural Logic of Romantic Anti-Capitalism: Dissent during the McCarthy Period
By David Craven
Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique examines the artistic aims of the New York School of painters within the context of left-wing political discussions during the 1940s and 1950s. By drawin...
Read MoreDiego Rivera as epic modernist
By David Craven
Art historian David Craven presents a sustained and highly original interpretation of Diego Rivera's particular version of "epic modernism," while offering a probing and coherent account of the art...
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