Art and Architecture in Mexico

Name: Art and Architecture in Mexico
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ISBN: 9780500204061

ISBN-10: 0500204063

ISBN-13: 9780500204061

Edition: 2013

Authors: James Oles

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This new interpretive history of Mexican art from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the twenty-first century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. James Oles ranges widely across media and genres, offering new readings of painting, sculpture, architecture, prints, and photographs. He interprets major works by such famous artists as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, but also discusses less familiar figures in history and landscape painting, muralism, and conceptual art. The story of Mexican art is set in its rich historical context by the book’s treatment of political and social change. The author draws on recent scholarship to examine crucial issues of…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 9/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.23" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 2.2

James Oles teaches art history at Wellesley College and is adjunctï¿½ curator of Latin American Art at the Davis Museum. His previous books include South of the Border: Mexico in the American Imagination 1914-47. He splits his time between Wellesley, MA and Mexico City.



Introduction



Conquest and Negotiation (1520-1600)



Art for the New Cities (1550-1700)



Baroque Splendor under the Bourbons (1700-1810)



From Neoclassicism to Romanticism (1750-1850)



National Identity: History, Landscape, Citizens (1840-80)



From the Porfiriato to the Revolution (1880-1920)



From Revolution to Renaissance (1920-34)



Political Traumas and Personal Dreams (1934-46)



Construction and Rebellion (1946-68)



From the Olympics to Neo-Mexicanism (1968-94)



Contemporary Issues: Art in Mexico since 1990


Timeline


Bibliographical Essay


Sources of Quotations


List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Index