‘A timely and important study, providing rich insight into Siqueiros’s place with international communist intellectual and visual culture.’
Professor Jennifer Jolly, Ithaca College

'Curtis Swope’s enthusiasm for his subject imbues every page. Probing Siqueiros’s engagement with wide-ranging international Marxist debates regarding ‘political’ art, the author deftly takes us through the artist’s development of an innovative war and post-war ‘modernist realism’.'
Professor Robin Greeley, University of Connecticut

Introduction
1 The war murals
2 Cuauhtémoc in the time of Stalin
3 Transition, contradiction, innovation
4 History at Chapultepec
5 Science, revolution and revision
6 Old left, new left and national culture at the Jorge Negrete Theater
7 Waiting for revolution
Conclusion
Index