Mexican Muralism

Author : Desmond Rochfort
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0811819280

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Mexican Muralists by Desmond Rochfort Pdf

Los tres grandes: Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Now legendary, these men have emerged as the most prominent figures of the famed Mexican mural movement, which lasted from the '20s through the early '70s and was hailed as the most significant achievement in public art of the 20th century. The dramatic story of the movement is told here in a fascinating history of the artists, accompanied by over 100 spectacular color reproductions of the murals. Showcasing popular as well as lesser-known works from around the US and Mexico, this is the first high-quality paperback to do justice to a subject that will captivate every lover of Mexican art and culture, Rivera fan, and art historian, as well as anyone who appreciates a beautiful, intelligent art book.

Author : Bruce Campbell
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816550425

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Mexican Murals in Times of Crisis by Bruce Campbell Pdf

Murals have been an important medium of public expression in Mexico since the Mexican Revolution, and names such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco will forever be linked with this revolutionary art form. Many people, however, believe that Mexico's renowned mural tradition died with these famous practitioners, and today's mural artists labor in obscurity as many of their creations are destroyed through hostility or neglect. This book traces the ongoing critical contributions of mural arts to public life in Mexico to show how postrevolutionary murals have been overshadowed both by the Mexican School and by the exclusionary nature of official public arts. By documenting a range of mural practices—from fixed-site murals to mantas (banner murals) to graffiti—Bruce Campbell evaluates the ways in which the practical and aesthetic components of revolutionary Mexican muralism have been appropriated and redeployed within the context of Mexico's ongoing economic and political crisis. Four dozen photographs illustrate the text. Blending ethnography, political science, and sociology with art history, Campbell traces the emergence of modern Mexican mural art as a composite of aesthetic, discursive, and performative elements through which collective interests and identities are shaped. He focuses on mural activists engaged combatively with the state—in barrios, unions, and street protests—to show that mural arts that are neither connected to the elite art world nor supported by the government have made significant contributions to Mexican culture. Campbell brings all previous studies of Mexican muralism up to date by revealing the wealth of art that has flourished in the shadows of official recognition. His work shows that interpretations by art historians preoccupied with contemporary high art have been incomplete—and that a rich mural tradition still survives, and thrives, in Mexico.

Author : Alejandro Anreus,Leonard Folgarait,Robin Ad�le Greeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520271616

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Mexican Muralism by Alejandro Anreus,Leonard Folgarait,Robin Ad�le Greeley Pdf

In this comprehensive collection of essays, three generations of international scholars examine Mexican muralism in its broad artistic and historical contexts, from its iconic figuresÑDiego Rivera, JosŽ Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro SiquierosÑto their successors in Mexico, the United States, and across Latin America. These muralists conceived of their art as a political weapon in popular struggles over revolution and resistance, state modernization and civic participation, artistic freedom and cultural imperialism. The contributors to this volume show how these artistsÕ murals transcended borders to engage major issues raised by the many different forms of modernity that emerged throughout the Americas during the twentieth century.

Author : Alejandro Anreus,Leonard Folgarait,Robin Adèle Greeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520271623

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Mexican Muralism by Alejandro Anreus,Leonard Folgarait,Robin Adèle Greeley Pdf

In this comprehensive collection of essays, three generations of international scholars examines Mexican muralism in its broad artistic and historical contexts,from its iconic figures to their successors in Mexico, the United States, and across Latin America.

Author : Mary K. Coffey
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822350378

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How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture by Mary K. Coffey Pdf

This is a study of the reciprocal relationship between Mexican muralism and the three major Mexican museums&—the Palace of Fine Arts, the National History Museum, and the National Anthropology Museum.

Author : Anna Indych-López
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822943846

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Muralism Without Walls by Anna Indych-López Pdf

Examines the introduction of Mexican muralism to the United States in the 1930s, and the challenges faced by the artists, their medium, and the political overtones of their work in a new society.

Author : Roberto Cantú
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527562752

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Mexican Mural Art by Roberto Cantú Pdf

This volume collects the work of prominent art critics, art historians, and literary critics who study the art, lives, and times of the leading Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and, among other artists, David Alfaro Siqueiros. Written exclusively for this book in English or in Spanish, and with a full-length introduction (in English), the selected essays respond to a surging interest in Mexican mural art, bringing forth new interpretations and perspectives from the standpoint of the 21st century. The volume’s innovative and varied critical approaches will be of interest to a wide readership, including professors and students of Mexican muralism, as well as the speculative reader, public libraries, and art galleries around the world.

Author : Laurance P. Hurlburt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Mural painting and decoration
ISBN : UOM:39015042575632

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The Mexican Muralists in the United States by Laurance P. Hurlburt Pdf

A study of the work of the great Mexican muralists, Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros in the 1930s, their influence upon US artists, the decline in interest in their work after WWII, and the resurrection of the 60s and 70s. Some 240 plates of fair to good quality (only 16 in color). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Barbara Haskell,Mark A. Castro
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300246698

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Vida Americana - Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945 by Barbara Haskell,Mark A. Castro Pdf

An in-depth look at the transformative influence of Mexican artists on their U.S. counterparts during a period of social change The first half of the 20th century saw prolific cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico, as artists and intellectuals traversed the countries' shared border in both directions. For U.S. artists, Mexico's monumental public murals portraying social and political subject matter offered an alternative aesthetic at a time when artists were seeking to connect with a public deeply affected by the Great Depression. The Mexican influence grew as the artists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros traveled to the United States to exhibit, sell their work, and make large-scale murals, working side-by-side with local artists, who often served as their assistants, and teaching them the fresco technique. Vida Americana examines the impact of their work on more than 70 artists, including Marion Greenwood, Philip Guston, Isamu Noguchi, Jackson Pollock, and Charles White. It provides a new understanding of art history, one that acknowledges the wide-ranging and profound influence the Mexican muralists had on the style, subject matter, and ideology of art in the United States between 1925 and 1945.

Author : John Onians
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781856693776

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Atlas of World Art by John Onians Pdf

Combines a survey of world art with maps showing the associations and dissemination of culture across the globe.

Author : Stephanie J. Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469635699

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The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico by Stephanie J. Smith Pdf

Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation required coercive measures toward dissenters. While artists and intellectuals, some of them professed Communists, sought free expression in matters both artistic and political, Smith reveals how they simultaneously learned the fine art of negotiation with the increasingly authoritarian government in order to secure clout and financial patronage. But the government, Smith shows, also had reason to accommodate artists, and a surprising and volatile interdependence grew between the artists and the politicians. Involving well-known artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as some less well known, including Tina Modotti, Leopoldo Mendez, and Aurora Reyes, politicians began to appropriate the artists' nationalistic visual images as weapons in a national propaganda war. High-stakes negotiating and co-opting took place between the two camps as they sparred over the production of generally accepted notions and representations of the revolution's legacy—and what it meant to be authentically Mexican.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 027104716X

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The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere by Anonim Pdf

Author : JEAN. CHARLOT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033160520

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MEXICAN MURAL RENAISSANCE, 1920-1925 by JEAN. CHARLOT Pdf

Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : Harvest Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 015600061X

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Essays on Mexican Art by Octavio Paz Pdf

Essays discuss pre-Columbian art, the influence of European art on the Mexican muralists, and the abstract art of Tamayo

Author : Matthew Affron,Mark A. Castro,Dafne Cruz Porchini,Renato Gonz?lez Mello
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300215223

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Paint the Revolution by Matthew Affron,Mark A. Castro,Dafne Cruz Porchini,Renato Gonz?lez Mello Pdf

A comprehensive look at four transformative decades that put Mexico's modern art on the map In the wake of the 1910-20 Revolution, Mexico emerged as a center of modern art, closely watched around the world. Highlighted are the achievements of the tres grandes (three greats)--José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros--and other renowned figures such as Rufino Tamayo and Frida Kahlo, but the book goes beyond these well-known names to present a fuller picture of the period from 1910 to 1950. Fourteen essays by authors from both the United States and Mexico offer a thorough reassessment of Mexican modernism from multiple perspectives. Some of the texts delve into thematic topics--developments in mural painting, the role of the government in the arts, intersections between modern art and cinema, and the impact of Mexican art in the United States--while others explore specific modernist genres--such as printmaking, photography, and architecture. This beautifully illustrated book offers a comprehensive look at the period that brought Mexico onto the world stage during a period of political upheaval and dramatic social change. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City Exhibition Schedule: Philadelphia Museum of Art (10/25/16-01/08/17) Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (02/03/17-04/30/17) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (June-September 2017)