Mexican muralist, international Marxist

Curtis Swope is a Professor of German at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas

‘A timely and important study, providing rich insight into Siqueiros’s place with international communist intellectual and visual culture.’Professor Jennifer Jolly, Ithaca College'Curtis Swope’s enthusiasm for his subject imbues every page. Probing Siqueiros’s engagement with wide-ranging international Marxist debates regarding ‘political’ art, the author deftly takes us through the artist’s development of an innovative war and post-war ‘modernist realism’.'Professor Robin Greeley, University of Connecticut

• Introduction1 The war murals2 Cuauhtémoc in the time of Stalin3 Transition, contradiction, innovation4 History at Chapultepec5 Science, revolution and revision6 Old left, new left and national culture at the Jorge Negrete Theater7 Waiting for revolutionConclusionIndex