Paint the Revolution : Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950 / edited by Matthew Affron, Mark A. Castro, Dafne Cruz Porchini, Renato González Mello ; with essays by Matthew Affron and others

Object Details

writer of supplementary textual content

Affron, Matthew (Art museum curator)

editor

Castro, Mark A.

Cruz Porchini, Dafne

González Mello, Renato

host institution

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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.

Contents

Modern art and Mexico, 1910-1950 / Matthew Affron -- Plates. Modernism and Mexicanidad ; Paint the Revolution ; In the city ; Paint the USA ; In times of war -- Witnessing revolution, forging a nation / Robin Adèle Greeley -- "Everything was for the Revolution": muralism at the Ministry of Public Education / Dafne Cruz Porchini -- La Gráfica: outlets and workshops / Renato González Mello -- The best Maugard drawing method and a new generation of artists / Mireida Velázquez -- Mexico estridentista / Lynda Klich -- Tales of the city: the contemporáneos and modern Mexican art / Mark A. Castro -- Syllable, word, discourse: Mexican photography between Abstraction and Montage, 1910-1950 / Laura González 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-López -- 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 Solís -- Architecture and avant-garde practice in Mexico, 1928-1950 / Daniel Garza Usabiaga

2016

20th century

Revolution, 1910-1920

Type

Exhibitions

Exhibition catalogs

History

Physical description

xv, 411 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Place

Mexico

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Modernism (Art)

Painting, Mexican

Mural painting and decoration, Mexican

Art, Mexican

Art and war

Art and revolutions

History

Record ID

siris_sil_1072719

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0