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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Anti-nazi Germans by Merilyn Moos/German Volunteers in the French Resistance by Steve Cushion
Revelatory accounts of courageous Germans who resisted the nazis during WWII
LEST WE FORGET: Memorial plaque to Werner Seelenbinder in Berlin
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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
A NUMBER of books deal with the German resistance to Hitler but only a few with resistance from the working-class and labour movement, with British communist Allen Merson's pioneering Communist Resistance in nazi Germany the best example.
These two books, published in one volume by Community Languages, can now be added to that list.
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