Abstract

AZUELA DE LA CUEVA, Alicia. Militancia política y labor artística de David Alfaro Siqueiros: de Olvera Street a Río de la Plata. Estud. hist. mod. contemp. Mex [online]. 2008, n.35, pp.109-144. ISSN 0185-2620.

The text examines one of the most important stages in the life of painter David Alfaro Siqueiros, which took place while he was exiled in Los Ángeles, Montevideo and Buenos Aires in 1932 and 1934 in New York in 1936 and finally, as a result of his role in the attempt on Leon Trotsky's life in 1940 in the Chilean city of Chillán from 1941 to 1943. The author suggests that this period not only permanently sealed the link between Siqueiros' artistic career and his political activity, but also lent them a profoundly international, transcultural connotation as regards their contents and impact. The author analyzes the antecedents of Siqueiros' artistic and political work and its repercussion on the founding of blocs of Communist Party militants drawn from artistic circles.

Keywords : David Alfaro Siqueiros; political militancy; exile; art history; Communist Party.

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