Mexican Muralism A Critical History

Name: Mexican Muralism A Critical History
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ISBN: 9780520271623

ISBN-10: 0520271629

ISBN-13: 9780520271623

Edition: 2012

Authors: Alejandro Anreus, Robin Adele Greeley, Leonard Folgarait

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In this comprehensive collection of essays, three generations of international scholars examine Mexican muralism in its broad artistic and historical contexts, from its iconic figures--Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siquieros--to 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 artists' murals transcended borders to engage major issues raised by the many different forms of modernity that emerged…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/8/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 394
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

Alejandro Anreusis Associate Professor of Art History and Latin American Studies at William Paterson University. He is the author ofOrozco in Gringoland: The Years in New York. Leonard Folgaraitis Professor of Art and Art History at Vanderbilt University and the author ofMural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940: Art of the New Order. Robin Adele Greeleyis Associate Professor of Art History and Latin American Studies at the University of Connecticut and the author ofSurrealism and the Spanish Civil War.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction




Mexican Muralism: Beginnings, Development, Ideologies, and National Responses



Muralism and the State in Post-Revolution Mexico, 1920-1970




Los Tres Grandes: Ideologies and Styles




"All Mexico on a Wall": Diego Rivera's Murals at the Ministry of Public Education




Siqueiros' Communist Proposition for Mexican Muralism: A Mural for the Mexican Electricians' Syndicate




Josï¿½ Clemente Orozco's Use of Architecture in the Dartmouth Mural




Murales Estridentes: Tensions and Affinities between Estridentismo and Early Muralism




Young Muralists at the Abelardo L. Rodrï¿½guez Market




Nietzsche contra Marx in Mexico: The Contemporï¿½neos, Muralism, and Debates over "Revolutionary" Art in 1930s Mexico




Muralism's Hemispheric Influences



Siqueiros' Travels and "Alternative Muralisms" in Argentina and Cuba




Social Realism and Constructivist Abstraction: The Limits of the Debate on Muralism in the Rï¿½o de la Plata Region (1930-1950)




Mexican Muralism in the United States: Controversies, Paradoxes, and Publics




Contemporary Responses to Muralism



Murals and Marginality in Mexico City: The Case of Tepito Arte Acï¿½




Radical Mestizaje in Chicano/a Murals




An Unauthorized History of Post-Mexican School Muralism




Chronology and Primary Texts


Chronology



Primary Texts



Manifesto of the Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors (Mexico City, 1923)


Josï¿½ Clemente Orozco, "New World, New Races and New Art" (New York, 1929)


Diego Rivera, "The Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art" (Baltimore, 1932)


David Alfaro Siqueiros, "A Call to Argentine Artists" (Buenos Aires, 1933)


David Alfaro Siqueiros, "Toward a Transformation of the Plastic Arts" (New York, 1934)


Josï¿½ Clemente Orozco, "Orozco 'Explains'" (New York, 1940)


Bibliography


Contributors


Index