The object of this research is to show the connection between art and politics in&nbsp;Mário Pedrosa´s pathway during the decades of 1930 to 1950. If in his lecture on the&nbsp;German engraver Käthe Kollwitz in 1933 Pedrosa had outlined the principles of a&nbsp;Marxist aesthetics, which tried to link up the nature, origin and development of art with&nbsp;the technical stage reached by society and the class struggle, from 1942 onwards, he put&nbsp;emphasis on the specificity and the proper laws of the artistic field. Although Pedrosa&nbsp;had always in mind the final process of syntesis between art and social revolution, there&nbsp;has been a shift in his position. This derived not from his deliberate withdrawal from&nbsp;politics in order to devote himself exclusively to his role as an art critic, but from a necessary adjustment to connect art with politics in another way, so that the prospects&nbsp;for the artistic field might be achieved.&nbsp;

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