Jose Clemente Orozco
Author: José Clemente Orozco
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780486418193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the life and career of the Mexican mural painter.
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José Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934
Author: Dawn Ades
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780393041767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe lifework of one of the finest Mexican muralists is fully illuminated here, capturing a full range of the politically charged images he created while living in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s.
Men of Fire
Author: Mary K. Coffey
Publisher: Hood Museum of Art Darmouth College
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780944722428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExhibition schedule: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: April 7-June 17, 2012; Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center [East Hampton, NY]: August 2-October 27, 2012.
The Artist in New York
Author: José Clemente Orozco
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2011-01-20
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 0292791496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his Foreword to this edition, Jean Charlot says: "An unusual feature of Orozco's letters is the great deal that he has to say about art. That one artist writing to another would emphasize art as his subject seems normal enough to the American reader. Yet, within the context of the Mexico of those days, the fact remains exceptional. The patria Orozco was leaving behind had, even from the point of view of its artists, many cares more pressing than art." The letters and unpublished writings of Orozco from this period (1925-1929) describe an important period of transition in the artist's life, from his departure from Mexico, almost as a defeated man, to the period just before he received the great mural commissions—Pomona, The New School for Social Research in New York, Dartmouth—that were to bring him lasting international fame.
Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art
Author: Antonio Castro Leal
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781494041571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a new release of the original 1940 edition.
Prometheus 2017
Author: Rebecca McGrew
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2017-08-29
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1606065440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished by Pomona College of Art in association with Getty Publications José Clemente Orozco’s 1930 mural Prometheus, created for the Pomona College campus, is a dramatic and gripping examination of heroism. This thoughtful exhibition catalogue examines the multiple ways Orozco’s vision resonates with four artists working in Mexico today. Isa Carrillo, Adela Goldbard, Rita Ponce de León, and Naomi Rincón- Gallardo share Orozco’s interest in history, justice, social protest, storytelling, and power yet approach these topics from their own twenty-first-century sensibilities. These artists activate Orozco’s mural by reinvigorating Prometheus for a contemporary audience. This gorgeous volume presents substantial new scholarship connecting Mexican muralism with contemporary art practices. Three new essays address different aspects of Orozco, Prometheus, and the connections between Los Angeles and Mexico. The contributors take on a broad range of topics, from murals as public art to how Orozco’s work fits into contemporary frameworks of aesthetic theory. The book also includes a chronology, vibrant reproductions, and critical essays focused on the con-temporary artists.
Mexican Muralists
Author: Desmond Rochfort
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 1998-03-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780811819282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLos tres grandes: Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Now legendary, these men have emerged as the most prominent figures of the famed Mexican mural movement, which lasted from the '20s through the early '70s and was hailed as the most significant achievement in public art of the 20th century. The dramatic story of the movement is told here in a fascinating history of the artists, accompanied by over 100 spectacular color reproductions of the murals. Showcasing popular as well as lesser-known works from around the US and Mexico, this is the first high-quality paperback to do justice to a subject that will captivate every lover of Mexican art and culture, Rivera fan, and art historian, as well as anyone who appreciates a beautiful, intelligent art book.
Mexican Murals in Times of Crisis
Author: Bruce Campbell
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2022-08-16
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0816550425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMurals have been an important medium of public expression in Mexico since the Mexican Revolution, and names such as Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco will forever be linked with this revolutionary art form. Many people, however, believe that Mexico's renowned mural tradition died with these famous practitioners, and today's mural artists labor in obscurity as many of their creations are destroyed through hostility or neglect. This book traces the ongoing critical contributions of mural arts to public life in Mexico to show how postrevolutionary murals have been overshadowed both by the Mexican School and by the exclusionary nature of official public arts. By documenting a range of mural practices—from fixed-site murals to mantas (banner murals) to graffiti—Bruce Campbell evaluates the ways in which the practical and aesthetic components of revolutionary Mexican muralism have been appropriated and redeployed within the context of Mexico's ongoing economic and political crisis. Four dozen photographs illustrate the text. Blending ethnography, political science, and sociology with art history, Campbell traces the emergence of modern Mexican mural art as a composite of aesthetic, discursive, and performative elements through which collective interests and identities are shaped. He focuses on mural activists engaged combatively with the state—in barrios, unions, and street protests—to show that mural arts that are neither connected to the elite art world nor supported by the government have made significant contributions to Mexican culture. Campbell brings all previous studies of Mexican muralism up to date by revealing the wealth of art that has flourished in the shadows of official recognition. His work shows that interpretations by art historians preoccupied with contemporary high art have been incomplete—and that a rich mural tradition still survives, and thrives, in Mexico.
José Clemente Orozco
Author: José Clemente Orozco
Publisher:
Published: 1932
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrozco's American Epic
Author: Mary K. Coffey
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2020-02-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781478002987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 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.
