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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zumoff, Jacob A

Titel

Between a Rockefeller and a Hard Place: Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads and the Left in the 1930s

Ist Teil von

• Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 2022-01, Vol.44 (121), p.219-262

Ort / Verlag

Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In 1933, Diego Rivera began painting Man at the Crossroads, a mural at Rockefeller Center in New York City. After Rivera included a por-trait of Bolshevik Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, and refused Nelson Rockerfeller's demand to remove this, the mural was first covered up, and then in February 1934, destroyed. That same year, Rivera painted a refashioned mural, Hombre, el controlador del universo, at the Palacio de Belles Artes in Mexico City. The current article examines this contro-versy through the lens of Rivera's relationship with the Communist left, in particular the pro-Moscow Communist Party, the Trotskyist Com-munist League of America, and the Lovestoneite Communist Party (Opposition), and argues that this provides a fuller understandingof Rivera's evolving political commitments and the changing politics of his paintings in this period.