Mexico and American Modernism
| Author | : Ellen G. Landau |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : ART |
| ISBN | : 9780300169133 |
A revolutionary look at the profound impact of Mexico and its culture on the development of American modernism
Mexico And American Modernism
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Errant Modernism
| Author | : Esther Gabara |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2008-12-15 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
DIVExamines photographs, mixed media essays, and experimental literature from two of the most influential modernist avant-garde movements in Latin America, proposing a theory of modernism that addresses the intersection of ethics and aesthetics./div
Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity
| Author | : Jeffrey M. Pilcher |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780842027717 |
Why was Cantinflas, actor Mario Moreno's film persona, the most popular movie star in Mexican history? Was it because every Mexican - rich or poor, Creole or Indian, man or woman, young or old - could identify with him?
Paint the Revolution
| Author | : Matthew Affron |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780300215229 |
A comprehensive look at four transformative decades that put Mexico's modern art on the map In the wake of the 1910-20 Revolution, Mexico emerged as a center of modern art, closely watched around the world. Highlighted are the achievements of the tres grandes (three greats)--José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros--and other renowned figures such as Rufino Tamayo and Frida Kahlo, but the book goes beyond these well-known names to present a fuller picture of the period from 1910 to 1950. Fourteen essays by authors from both the United States and Mexico offer a thorough reassessment of Mexican modernism from multiple perspectives. Some of the texts delve into thematic topics--developments in mural painting, the role of the government in the arts, intersections between modern art and cinema, and the impact of Mexican art in the United States--while others explore specific modernist genres--such as printmaking, photography, and architecture. This beautifully illustrated book offers a comprehensive look at the period that brought Mexico onto the world stage during a period of political upheaval and dramatic social change. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City Exhibition Schedule: Philadelphia Museum of Art (10/25/16-01/08/17) Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (02/03/17-04/30/17) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (June-September 2017)
Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico
| Author | : Edward R. Burian |
| Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 2010-06-28 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0292791666 |
Since the mid 1970s, there has been an extraordinary renewal of interest in early modern architecture, both as a way of gaining insight into contemporary architectural culture and as a reaction to neoconservative postmodernism. This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of the notion of modernity in Mexican architecture and its influence on a generation of Mexican architects whose works spanned the 1920s through the 1960s. Nine essays by noted architects and architectural historians cover a range of topics from broad-based critical commentaries to discussions of individual architects and buildings. Among the latter are the architects Enrique del Moral, Juan O'Gorman, Carlos Obregón Santacilia, Juan Segura, Mario Pani, and the campus and stadium of the Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City. Relatively little has been published in English regarding this era in Mexican architecture. Thus, Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico will play a groundbreaking role in making the underlying assumptions, ideological and political constructs, and specific architect's agendas known to a wide audience in the humanities. Likewise, it should inspire greater appreciation for this undervalued body of works as an important contribution to the modern movement.
Modern Architecture in Mexico City
| Author | : Kathryn E. O'Rourke |
| Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Total Pages | : 461 |
| Release | : 2017-02-10 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0822981629 |
Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican colonial architecture, which suggested that Mexico possessed a distinctive architecture and culture, beginning in the 1920s a new generation of architects created profoundly visual modern buildings intended to convey Mexico's unique cultural character. By midcentury these architects and their students had rewritten the country's architectural history and transformed the capital into a metropolis where new buildings that evoked pre-conquest, colonial, and International Style architecture coexisted. Through an exploration of schools, a university campus, a government ministry, a workers' park, and houses for Diego Rivera and Luis Barragan, Kathryn O'Rourke offers a new interpretation of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform. This book demonstrates why creating a distinctively Mexican architecture captivated architects whose work was formally dissimilar, and how that concern became central to the profession.
Mathias Goeritz
| Author | : Jennifer Josten |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2018-01-01 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0300228600 |
The first major work in English on Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), this book illuminates the artist's pivotal role within the landscape of twentieth-century modernism. Goeritz became recognized as an abstract sculptor after arriving in Mexico from Germany by way of Spain in 1949. His call to integrate abstract forms into civic and religious architecture, outlined in his "Emotional Architecture" manifesto, had a transformative impact on midcentury Mexican art and design. While best known for the experimental museum El Eco and his collaborations with the architect Luis Barrag n, including the brightly colored towers of Satellite City, Goeritz also shaped the Bauhaus-inspired curriculum at Guadalajara's School of Architecture and the iconic Cultural Program of Mexico City's 1968 Olympic Games. Josten addresses the Cold War implications of these and other initiatives that pitted Goeritz, an advocate of internationalist abstraction, against Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, ardent defenders of the realist style that prevailed in official Mexican art during the postrevolutionary period. Exploring Goeritz's dialogues with leading figures among the Parisian and New York avant-gardes, such as Yves Klein and Philip Johnson, Josten shows how Goeritz's approach to modernism, which was highly attuned to politics and place, formed part of a global enterprise.
Border Modernism
| Author | : Christopher Schedler |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780415941495 |
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Mexican Modern Painting
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Rm |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9788415118145 |
Presents eighty fundamental Works by more than forty outstanding Mexican artists active in the first half of the twentieth Century. This period was one of great creativity, intense experimentation, and cultural development, and the artists and patrons of the Works in this Collection were intensely driven by the need to create an aesthetic identity that would represent Mexico as a nation state.
Modernist America
| Author | : Richard Pells |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 514 |
| Release | : 2011-03-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0300171730 |
America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world has been reciprocal, says Richard Pells. The United States not only plays a large role in shaping international entertainment and tastes, it is also a consumer of foreign intellectual and artistic influences.Pells reveals how the American artists, novelists, composers, jazz musicians, and filmmakers who were part of the Modernist movement were greatly influenced by outside ideas and techniques. People across the globe found familiarities in American entertainment, resulting in a universal culture that has dominated the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and fulfilled the aim of the Modernist movement--to make the modern world seem more intelligible."Modernist America" brilliantly explains why George Gershwin's music, Cole Porter's lyrics, Jackson Pollock's paintings, Bob Fosse's choreography, Marlon Brando's acting, and Orson Welles's storytelling were so influential, and why these and other artists and entertainers simultaneously represent both an American and a modern global culture.
