Paint the Revolution : Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950 / edited by Matthew Affron, Mark A. Castro, Dafne Cruz Porchini, Renato Gonzalez Mello ; with essays by Matthew Affron [and others].
Edition:
1st edition.
Publisher:
Philadelphia Museum of Art ;
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
xv, 411 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Published on the occasion of the exhibition, held at Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 25, 2016 - January 8, 2017; Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, February 3 - April 30, 2017; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June - September 2017. Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-393) and index.
Contents:
Architecture and avant-garde practice in Mexico, 1928-1950 / Daniel Garza Usabiaga. Plates. Modernism and Mexicanidad ; Paint the Revolution ; In the city ; Paint the USA ; In times of war -- Witnessing revolution, forging a nation / Robin Adele Greeley -- "Everything was for the Revolution": muralism at the Ministry of Public Education / Dafne Cruz Porchini -- La Grafica: outlets and workshops / Renato Gonzalez Mello -- The best Maugard drawing method and a new generation of artists / Mireida Velazquez -- Mexico estridentista / Lynda Klich -- Tales of the city: the contemporaneos and modern Mexican art / Mark A. Castro -- Syllable, word, discourse: Mexican photography between Abstraction and Montage, 1910-1950 / Laura Gonzalez 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-Lopez -- 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 Solis -- Architecture and avant-garde practice in Mexico, 1928-1950 / Daniel Garza Usabiaga.
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