Mission Impossible: Guernica. The Battle for the Interpretation of Picasso’s Work during the Cold War

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Figure 1 Jan van Raay, Art Workers’ Coalition and the Guerilla Art Action Group protest in Front of Picasso’s “Guernica” at the Museum of Modern Art, with the AWC’s “And Babies?” poster, 1970. Photograph, Museum of Modern Art, New York © Jan van Raay/Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2022.

Figure 2 Art Workers' Coalition, Q. And babies? A. And babies., 1970. Offset lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jon Hendricks, 2017.10 © 1970 Irving Petlin, Jon Hendricks, and Frazer Dougherty.

Figure 3 View of the Spanish Pavilion, International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life, Paris, 1937. Photograph © José Lino Vaamonde Valencia. Instituto Del Patrimonio Histórico Español, Madrid. Donación De J. Vaamonde Horcada (2001)/Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2022.

Figure 4 View of Guernica (1937) shown at the exhibition Picasso: Forty Years of His Art, MoMA, New York, November 15, 1939–January 7, 1940. Gelatin silver print, 11.4 × 16.5 cm, DIGITAL IMAGE © The Museum of Modern Art/Scala, Florence/Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2022.

Figure 5 Kunst und Politik, Karlsruhe: Badischer Kunstverein, 1970, exhibition catalog cover.

Figure 6 Equipo Crónica, Guernica 69. La visita, 1969. Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 120 cm, Colección Lucio Muñoz, Madrid © Index Fototeca/Bridgeman Images, DACS 2022.

Figure 7 Equipo Crónica, Guernica 69. El embalaje, 1969. Acrylic on canvas, 120.5 x 119.5 cm, Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona © DACS 2022.

Figure 8 Equipo Crónica, Guernica, 1971. Serigraph, 75.3 x 55.4 cm, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia © DACS 2022.

Figure 9 Roy Lichtenstein, Whaam!, 1963. Acrylic paint and oil paint on canvas, 30 x 12.9 cm, Tate, London © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/DACS 2022.