Paint the Revolution : Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950

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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].

Affron, Matthew (Art museum curator), (editor,, writer of supplementary textual content.). Castro, Mark A., (editor.). Cruz Porchini, Dafne, (editor.). Gonzalez Mello, Renato, (editor.). Philadelphia Museum of Art, (issuing body,, organizer,, host institution.). Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico), (issuing body,, organizer,, host institution.). Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, (host institution.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780876332719
ISBN: 0876332718
ISBN: 9780300215229
ISBN: 0300215223
ISBN: 9786076054024
ISBN: 6076054026
Physical Description: xv, 411 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:	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.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-393) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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 Adele Greeley -- "Everything was for the Revolution": muralism at the Ministry of Public Education / Dafne Cruz Porchini -- La Gr©Łfica: 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.