Gertje R. Utley
Pablo Picasso: The Communist Years
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
1999.
288 pp.; 40 color ills.; 175 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(0300082517)
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February 4, 2002
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Go to the “Electronic Reading Room” at http://foia.fbi.gov/ to find that Picasso appears in FBI files from the 1940s onward, which are now available courtesy of the Freedom of Information Act. In 1990, Herbert Mitgang (“When Picasso Spooked the FBI,” The New York Times, 11 November) revealed some of these Cold War additions to the politics of representation. With Picasso, these politics are conventionally characterized by a variety of documents, such as his contract with...