Paint the revolution : Mexican modernism, 1910-1950 / edited by Matthew Affron, Mark A. Castro, Dafne Cruz Porchini, Renato González Mello ; with essays by Matthew Affron, Mark A. Castro, Mary K. Coffey, Dafne Cruz Porchini, Rita Eder, Daniel Garza Usabiaga, Laura González Flores, Renato González Mello, Robin Adèle Greeley, Anna Indych-López, Lynda Klich, Joseph J. Rishel, Juan Solís, Mireida Velázquez.

Paint the revolution : Mexican modernism, 1910-1950 /

In the wake of the 1910-20 Revolution, Mexico emerged as a centre of modern art, closely watched around the world. This books highlights the achievements of the tres grandes (three greats), Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and other renowned figures such as Rufino Tama...

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Other Authors: Affron, Matthew (Art museum curator) (Editor), Castro, Mark A. (Editor), Cruz Porchini, Dafne (Editor), González Mello, Renato (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Phialdelphia, PA : Mexico City : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, 2016.
Subjects:
Revolution (Mexico : 1910-1920)
1900-1999
Modernism (Art) > Mexico > Exhibitions.
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Art > Political aspects > Mexico > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Art and society > Mexico > History > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Painting, Mexican > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Art and war > Exhibitions.
Painting, Mexican > Exhibitions. > 20th century.
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican > Exhibitions. > 20th century.
Art, Mexican.
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican.
Painting, Mexican.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Art and society.
Art > Political aspects.
Modernism (Art)
Mexico > History > Revolution, 1910-1920 > Art and the revolution > Exhibitions.
Mexico > History > Revolution, 1910-1920.
Mexico.
exhibition catalogs.
Acquisition Notes:R. Sturgis Ingersoll Memorial Fund
Table of Contents:
  • Modern art and Mexico, 1910-1950 / Matthew Affron
  • Plates. Modernism and Mexicanidad ; Paint the Revolution ; In the city ; Paint the USA ; In times of war
  • Witnessing revolution, forging a nation / Robin Adèle Greeley
  • "Everything was for the Revolution": muralism at the Ministry of Public Education / Dafne Cruz Porchini
  • La Gráfica: outlets and workshops / Renato González Mello
  • The best Maugard drawing method and a new generation of artists / Mireida Velázquez
  • Mexico estridentista / Lynda Klich
  • Tales of the city: the contemporáneos and modern Mexican art / Mark A. Castro
  • Syllable, word, discourse: Mexican photography between Abstraction and Montage, 1910-1950 / Laura González Flores
  • North of the border: exhibiting and collecting modern Mexican art in the United States / Joseph J. Rishel
  • Mexican muralism in the United States in the early 1930s: the social, the real, and the modern / Anna Indych-López
  • State ritual, mass politics, or mythopoesis? The many modalities of Mexican muralism, 1929-1950 / Mary K. Coffey
  • Surrealism in Mexico: tensions and encounters / Rita Eder
  • The rhetoric of light: fables of power and allegories of desire in Mexican film from the 1930s / Juan Solís
  • Architecture and avant-garde practice in Mexico, 1928-1950 / Daniel Garza Usabiaga.

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