Claudia Mesch is Professor of Art History at Arizona State University. Her books include Modern Art at the Berlin Wall (2009) and Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change since 1945 (2013). She is a founding editor of the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas and lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
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