Art promoting ideology

22 October 2018

“While she was too devoted to the Party to risk disapproval or expulsion, Tina was too much of an artist to see her work reduced to mere propaganda.” As Ms. Modotti sensed the Soviet attitude that art was for promoting ideology, her photography waned.


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