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In this fascinating book, Professor Christoph Schmidt has addressed the complex relationship between art and politics, focusing on artistic depictions of the worker and the way in which they reflect the specific political and social circumstances within which they were created. [...] With insight, passion, and clarity, Schmidt chronicles the way art has shown the worker as victim, martyr, inspiraton, leader, ruler, and hero, while elucidating the complex relationship to politics and current developments that underpins these depictions. [...] Stimulating and succinct.

"""In this fascinating book, Professor Christoph Schmidt has addressed the complex relationship between art and politics, focusing on artistic depictions of the worker and the way in which they reflect the specific political and social circumstances within which they were created. [...] With insight, passion, and clarity, Schmidt chronicles the way art has shown the worker as victim, martyr, inspiraton, leader, ruler, and hero, while elucidating the complex relationship to politics and current developments that underpins these depictions. [...] Stimulating and succinct."""

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Christoph Schmidt ist Professor fur Osteuropaische Geschichte an der Universitat Koln. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in der Kunst- und der Europaischen Geschichte.

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