A Guide to Mexican Art

A Guide to Mexican Art

Author: Justino Fernández

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1969-08-15

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780226244211

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A Guide to Mexican Art, a survey of more than twenty centuries of art, has a double purpose. It provides an ample version of one of the great national arts by a leading art historian, and it serves simultaneously as a practical guide to the art's outstanding masterpieces. The Guide will thus be of value to specialists and students of Latin American art and to sightseers as an introduction and guide to the art and architecture of Mexico. To facilitate its use for the latter purpose, Professor Fernández has based his exposition on the sensitive analysis of works to be found almost exclusive in museums and public buildings accessible to the tourist. The book was originally published in Spanish in 1958 and revised in 1961. This English translation, from the second edition has been brought up to date by the author and translator.


Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo

Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo

Author: Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780300091861

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Carr, a Canadian, O'Keeffe, an American, and Kahlo, a Mexican, were not close during their lives, but Udall (an independent art historian in Santa Fe, New Mexico), in this carefully reasoned and illuminating study, effectively brings many aspects of the artists' works together to demonstrate a kind of zeitgeist they shared as women developing often surprisingly similar, non-traditional themes in the 1920s. Links between their works are developed in the areas of nationalism, identity, gender, nature, and self through discussion of their paintings, psychology, and artistic influences. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR


Art and Architecture in Mexico

Art and Architecture in Mexico

Author: James Oles

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2013-09-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0500204063

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“A lucid—at times, even poetic—summary of five hundred years of Mexican art. The illustrated works of art are well-chosen and beautifully integrated into Oles’s text. Indeed, it feels as if his words emanate from the art itself.” –Donna Pierce, Denver Art Museum 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 race, class, and gender, including the work of indigenous artists during the colonial period, and of women artists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Throughout, Oles shows how Mexican artists participated in local and international developments. He considers both native and foreign-born artists, from Baroque architects to kinetic sculptors, and highlights the important role played by Mexicans in the global art scene of the last five centuries.


Muralism Without Walls

Muralism Without Walls

Author: Anna Indych-López

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0822943840

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Examines the introduction of Mexican muralism to the United States in the 1930s, and the challenges faced by the artists, their medium, and the political overtones of their work in a new society.


Mexico

Mexico

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13: 0870995952

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Precolumbian art -- Viceregal art -- Nineteenth century art -- Twentieth century art.


Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Literature and Art

Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Literature and Art

Author: Nicolàs Kanellos

Publisher: Arte Publico Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9781611921632

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Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.


Hemispheric Integration

Hemispheric Integration

Author: Niko Vicario

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2020-03-31

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0520310020

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Exploring art made in Latin America during the 1930s and 1940s, Hemispheric Integration argues that Latin America’s position within a global economic order was crucial to how art from that region was produced, collected, and understood. Niko Vicario analyzes art’s relation to shifting trade patterns, geopolitical realignments, and industrialization to suggest that it was in this specific era that the category of Latin American art developed its current definition. Focusing on artworks by iconic Latin American modernists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Joaquín Torres-García, Cândido Portinari, and Mario Carreño, Vicario emphasizes the materiality and mobility of art and their connection to commerce, namely the exchange of raw materials for manufactured goods from Europe and the United States. An exceptional examination of transnational culture, this book provides a new model for the study of Latin American art.