Picasso, Korea, and "Stalinist Trash"

[Charles Brown]

Comrade Picasso was a party member for a while.

CB


>>> Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> 04/21/00 09:47PM >>>

 From Bruce Cumings, _War and Television_ (NY: Verso, 1992):

*****   A rule of this amnesia [about the Korean War} might be, 'all 
of so-and-so's paintings (or photographs, or books, or cinema) are 
interesting except those done about Korea.'  Thus I found out only by 
reading the fine print of Picasso's obituary that he did a mural in 
1951 in the genre of _Guernica_, titled _Massacre in Korea_; I put it 
on the cover of my first book and then saw the original at the grand 
Picasso exhibition a few years ago in New York...and then read Hilton 
Kramer's review of the exhibition, where he referred to the mural as 
'Stalinist trash.'... (146-7)   *****

Yoshie