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Go to the “Electronic Reading Room” at http://foia.fbi.gov/ to find that Picasso appears in FBI files from the 1940s onward, which are now available courtesy of the Freedom of Information Act. In 1990, Herbert Mitgang (“When Picasso Spooked the FBI,” The New York Times,11 November) revealed some of these Cold War additions to the politics of representation.

With Picasso, these politics are conventionally characterized by a variety of documents, such as his contract with the dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (dated 1912), and his membership card for the French Communist Party (PCF) after 1944. Such sources evoke issues of biography, agency, and historical specificity—issues that have been debated and contested fiercely within the disciplines of art history and cultural studies.

In the United States, questions about political commitment and the values of institutions devoted to art and the art market are further complicated by the legacies of the early Cold War