Mural Painting And Social Revolution In Mexico 1920 1940

Author : Leonard Folgarait
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521581478

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Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 by Leonard Folgarait Pdf

Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940 is the first full-length account of this major movement in the history of Modernism. Following the Revolution of 1910, Mexican society underwent a profound transformation in every sector of political and cultural life. Mexican artists participated in this social revolution during a vital two-decade period through public art programmes funded by the government and other institutions. Applying a social-historical methodology, Leonard Folgarait examines this phenomenon and focuses on the mural paintings of Diego Rivera, José Orozco, and David Siqueiros produced during this period. He provides an indepth analysis of the form and meaning of these mural cycles, while documenting the system of patronage, the critical connections between state policy and aesthetics, and the visual strategies devised by patrons and artists in order to maximise the impact of these propagandistic images.

Author : Mary K. Coffey
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Mary Kay Vaughan,Stephen Lewis
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822387527

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The Eagle and the Virgin by Mary Kay Vaughan,Stephen Lewis Pdf

When the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the daunting task of building a cohesive nation. It had to establish control over a disparate and needy population and prepare the country for global economic competition. As part of this effort, the government enlisted the energy of artists and intellectuals in cultivating a distinctly Mexican identity. It devised a project for the incorporation of indigenous peoples and oversaw a vast, innovative program in the arts. The Eagle and the Virgin examines the massive nation-building project Mexico undertook between 1920 and 1940. Contributors explore the nation-building efforts of the government, artists, entrepreneurs, and social movements; their contradictory, often conflicting intersection; and their inevitably transnational nature. Scholars of political and social history, communications, and art history describe the creation of national symbols, myths, histories, and heroes to inspire patriotism and transform workers and peasants into efficient, productive, gendered subjects. They analyze the aesthetics of nation building made visible in murals, music, and architecture; investigate state projects to promote health, anticlericalism, and education; and consider the role of mass communications, such as cinema and radio, and the impact of road building. They discuss how national identity was forged among social groups, specifically political Catholics, industrial workers, middle-class women, and indigenous communities. Most important, the volume weighs in on debates about the tension between the eagle (the modernizing secular state) and the Virgin of Guadalupe (the Catholic defense of faith and morality). It argues that despite bitter, violent conflict, the symbolic repertoire created to promote national identity and memory making eventually proved capacious enough to allow the eagle and the virgin to coexist peacefully. Contributors. Adrian Bantjes, Katherine Bliss, María Teresa Fernández, Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Joanne Hershfield, Stephen E. Lewis, Claudio Lomnitz, Rick A. López, Sarah M. Lowe, Jean Meyer, James Oles, Patrice Olsen, Desmond Rochfort, Michael Snodgrass, Mary Kay Vaughan, Marco Velázquez, Wendy Waters, Adriana Zavala

Author : Alejandro Anreus,Robin Adèle Greeley,Megan A. Sullivan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781118475416

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A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art by Alejandro Anreus,Robin Adèle Greeley,Megan A. Sullivan Pdf

In-depth scholarship on the central artists, movements, and themes of Latin American art, from the Mexican revolution to the present A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art consists of over 30 never-before-published essays on the crucial historical and theoretical issues that have framed our understanding of art in Latin America. This book has a uniquely inclusive focus that includes both Spanish-speaking Caribbean and contemporary Latinx art in the United States. Influential critics of the 20th century are also covered, with an emphasis on their effect on the development of artistic movements. By providing in-depth explorations of central artists and issues, alongside cross-references to illustrations in major textbooks, this volume provides an excellent complement to wider surveys of Latin American and Latinx art. Readers will engage with the latest scholarship on each of five distinct historical periods, plus broader theoretical and historical trends that continue to influence how we understand Latinx, Indigenous, and Latin American art today. The book’s areas of focus include: The development of avant-garde art in the urban centers of Latin America from 1910-1945 The rise of abstraction during the Cold War and the internationalization of Latin American art from 1945-1959 The influence of the political upheavals of the 1960s on art and art theory in Latin America The rise of conceptual art as a response to dictatorship and social violence in the 1970s and 1980s The contemporary era of neoliberalism and globalization in Latin American and Latino Art, 1990-2010 With its comprehensive approach and informative structure, A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art is an excellent resource for advanced students in Latin American culture and art. It is also a valuable reference for aspiring scholars in the field.

Author : Susan Danly
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0826328059

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Casa Mañana by Susan Danly Pdf

Provides a detailed look at the political and artistic climate in Mexican-American relations through an examination of the folk art collection amassed by Dwight and Elizabeth Morrow when he was U.S. ambassador to Mexico in the late 1920s.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Alejandro Anreus,Leonard Folgarait,Robin Ad�le Greeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Roberto Cantú
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Desmond Manderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107158665

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Danse Macabre by Desmond Manderson Pdf

A revolutionary approach exploring legal themes such as justice, legitimacy, sovereignty, and power through close readings of major works of art.

Author : Stephanie J. Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Thomas Benjamin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292782976

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La Revolución by Thomas Benjamin Pdf

The 1910 Revolution is still tangibly present in Mexico in the festivals that celebrate its victories, on the monuments to its heroes, and, most important, in the stories and memories of the Mexican people. Yet there has never been general agreement on what the revolution meant, what its objectives were, and whether they have been accomplished. This pathfinding book shows how Mexicans from 1910 through the 1950s interpreted the revolution, tried to make sense of it, and, through collective memory, myth-making, and history writing, invented an idea called "la Revolución." In part one, Thomas Benjamin follows the historical development of different and often opposing revolutionary traditions and the state's efforts to forge them into one unified and unifying narrative. In part two, he examines ways of remembering the past and making it relevant to the present through fiestas, monuments, and official history. This research clarifies how the revolution has served to authorize and legitimize political factions and particular regimes to the present day. Beyond the Mexican case, it demonstrates how history is used to serve the needs of the present.

Author : Mary K. Coffey
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478003304

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Orozco's American Epic by Mary K. Coffey Pdf

Between 1932 and 1934, José Clemente Orozco painted the twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An artifact of Orozco's migration from Mexico to the United States, the Epic represents a turning point in his career, standing as the only fresco in which he explores both US-American and Mexican narratives of national history, progress, and identity. While his title invokes the heroic epic form, the mural indicts history as complicit in colonial violence. It questions the claims of Manifest Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project. In Orozco's American Epic Mary K. Coffey places Orozco in the context of his contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and demonstrates the Epic's power as a melancholic critique of official indigenism, industrial progress, and Marxist messianism. In the process, Coffey finds within Orozco's work a call for justice that resonates with contemporary debates about race, immigration, borders, and nationality.

Author : Jani McCutcheon,Fiona McGaughey
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788971478

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Research Handbook on Art and Law by Jani McCutcheon,Fiona McGaughey Pdf

Featuring international contributions from leading and emerging scholars, this innovative Research Handbook presents a panoramic view of how law sees visual art, and how visual art sees law. It resists the conventional approach to art and law as inherently dissonant – one a discipline preoccupied with rationality, certainty and objectivity; the other a creative enterprise ensconced in the imaginary and inviting multiple, unique and subjective interpretations. Blending these two distinct disciplines, this unique Research Handbook bridges the gap between art and law.

Author : Leah Dickerman,Diego Rivera,Anna Indych-López,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780870708176

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Diego Rivera by Leah Dickerman,Diego Rivera,Anna Indych-López,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to NewYork six weeks before the opening and provided him a studio space in the building. There he produced five 'portable murals' - large blocks of frescoed plaster, slaked lime and wood that feature bold images drawn from Mexican subject matter and address themes of revolution and class inequity. After the opening, to great publicity, Rivera added three more murals, taking on NewYork subjects through monumental images of the urban working class. Published in conjunction with an exhibition that brings together key works from Rivera's 1931 show and related material, this vividly illustrated catalogue casts the artist as a highly cosmopolitan figure who moved between Russia, Mexico and the United States and examines the intersection of art-making and radical politics in the 1930s.

Author : Patrick Frank
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300133332

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Readings in Latin American Modern Art by Patrick Frank Pdf

This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents—including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists—that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field. Many of these materials are difficult to access and some are translated here for the first time. Together the selections explore the breadth and depth of Latin American modern art as well as its distinctive evolution apart from American and European art history. Included in this collection are fascinating ideas and insights on the impact of the avant-garde in the 1920s, the Mexican mural movement, Surrealism and other fantasy-based styles, modern architecture, geometric and optical art, concrete and neo-concrete art, and political conceptualism. For students and scholars of Latin American art, the volume offers an invaluable collection of primary and secondary sources.