Interesting review that touches upon the rejection of modernism by many British left-wing artists. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Laugh out loud moment: "Picasso was held in disdain: some AIA artists .... maintained that Guernica was a lesser work of political art than their own efforts."
Owen Hatherley · Raised on Spam: British Communist ArtThe Artists International Association created the sort of art which has had critical manure heaped on it since the 1940s...www.lrb.co.ukLondon Review of Books‘The AIA created the sort of art which has had critical manure heaped on it since the 1940s: realist, figurative, agitational, achingly sincere.’ Owen Hatherley on British anti-fascist art in the 1930s. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
