Jewish refugee artists linked their anti-art to beat poetry and Castro.

Evidence

Lurie called the Vulgar Show a “group manifestation” inspired by the “courage of the Beat poets, Castro’s insurrection, our own desperation,” and he considered it an exorcism. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 182

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s framing of avant-gardes as produced by political conditions — here the Cuban revolution and Holocaust aftermath.