Free Download When Harry Met Pablo: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CJ487VNQ | 2023 | 6 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 348 MB
Author: Matthew Algeo
Narrator: Pat Grimes
Harry Truman and Pablo Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century-the man who painted Guernica and the man who authorized the use of atomic bombs against civilians. But in most ways, they couldn’t have been more different. Picasso was a communist, and probably the only thing Truman hated more than communists was modern art. Picasso was an indifferent father, a womanizer, and a millionaire. Truman was utterly devoted to his family and, despite his fame, far from a rich man. How did they come to be shaking hands in front of Picasso’s studio in the south of France?
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