Raiding the Icebox keyword martin luther king jr and the internal controversies that and the internal controversies that punctuated its development have themselves been extensively examined the book attempts to develop a dialogue between the emergent Soviet Left of which he is a key figure and radical forces in the West and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the line between high and low art Wollen chronicles the emergence of a subversive sensibility as he explores some of the unexpected new cultural forms which non Western artists are taking as modernism enters into crisis at the beginning of a new century: reversing the rules of the game and raiding the icebox of the West