To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
Wide-ranging account of the movement which changed the course of China's history
Widespread: A Maoist settlement in Nepal
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If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
MAOISM is broadly defined as a variant of Marxism that places greater emphasis on the peasantry and, while “orthodox” Marxist-Leninists see this group as equal to the industrial working class, with its specific emphasis on anti-imperialism, Maoism can be dismissive of workers’ movements in the developed world.
It contains a cult-like veneration of the leader which puts the Soviet Union under Stalin to shame, although that’s possibly been recently exceeded in North Korea.
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