![]() ![]() To learn more about Airwave, visit If you'd like to advertise on The Art of Crime, please can take the Airwave listener survey at /r/airwave. ![]() Show notes and full transcripts available at If you'd like to support the show, please consider becoming a patron at The Art of Crime is part of the Airwave Media network. In 1940, his political convictions led to a less honorable enterprise when he spearheaded an assault on the home of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky as he and his family slept in their beds. Trotsky’s guidelines for the new art of the Soviet Republic were broad and tolerant ('Art cannot live and cannot develop without a flexible atmosphere of sympathy around it'). Over the next several decades, he would revolutionize the theory and practice of muralism in Mexico and abroad, largely inspired by his radical politics. Trotsky’s writings on art constitute a part of his struggle against Stalinism and for socialism. A diehard Communist, David Alfaro Siqueiros fought in the Mexican Revolution in the mid-1910s. ![]()
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