Dissent – Art
Brazilian artist Cândido Portinari, the child of Italian immigrants, grew up on a coffee plantation in the state of São Paulo where his father worked. At the age of fifteen he started his studies at the academy of arts in Rio de Janiero. In his work he wanted to depict the turmoil of the time …
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The Communist Manifesto(Nordica libros)By Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsIllustrated by Fernando VicenteTranslated by Jacobo Muñoz For a new Spanish edition of The Communist Manifesto, Madrid-based artist Fernando Vicente created a series of striking, chromatically appropriate black-white-and-red illustrations that capture the message and sensibility of the Marx and Engels classic work. One of the most important …
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“Communism—the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute—this is the only way of human life… In the end communism will triumph.I want to help bring that day.” – W.E.B. Du Bois What Is To Be Done? A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future …