Research Catalog

Title

Vida Americana : Mexican muralists remake American art, 1925-1945 / edited by Barbara Haskell ; with additional essays by Mark A. Castro [and 9 others].

Publication

• New York : Whitney Museum of American Art; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Haskell, Barbara
• Castro, Mark A.
• Whitney Museum of American Art, issuing body, host institution.
• McNay Art Museum, host institution.

Description

255 pages : illustrations; 31 cm

Summary

"The first half of the 20th century saw prolific cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico, as artists and intellectuals traversed the countries' shared border in both directions. For U.S. artists, Mexico's monumental public murals portraying social and political subject matter offered an alternative aesthetic at a time when artists were seeking to connect with a public deeply affected by the Great Depression. The Mexican influence grew as the artists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros traveled to the United States to exhibit, sell their work, and make large-scale murals, working side-by-side with local artists, who often served as their assistants, and teaching them the fresco technique. Vida Americana examines the impact of their work on over 70 artists including Aaron Douglas, Marion Greenwood, Philip Guston, Isamu Noguchi, and Jackson Pollock. It provides a new understanding of art history, one that acknowledges the wide-ranging and profound influence the Mexican muralists had on the style, subject matter, and ideology of art in the United States between 1925 and 1945"--

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Mural painting and decoration, Mexican > Exhibitions
• Mural painting and decoration, Mexican > United States > Influence > Exhibitions
• Art, American > 20th century > Mexican influences > Exhibitions
• ART / Caribbean & Latin American
• ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Group Shows
• Art, American > Mexican influences
• Mural painting and decoration, Mexican
• Mural painting and decoration, Mexican > Influence
• United States

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945...Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 17-May 17, 2020; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, June 25-October 4, 2020

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg -- América: Mexican muralism and art in the United States, 1925-1945 / Barbara Haskell -- Plates: Romantic nationalism and the myth of revolution -- Orozco on the coasts -- American historical epics -- Rivera and the new deal -- Art as political activism -- Siqueiros in Los Angeles and New York -- Prometheus unbound: Orozco in Pomona / Renato González Mello -- "Only a Rivera": the mural painter in the United States / Mark A. Castro -- Celluloid América: Siqueiros, Hollywood and plástica fílmica / Anna Indych-López -- Transcultural modernists as bicultural bridges: Anita Brenner, Alma Reed and Frances Toor / Michael K. Schuessler -- Mexican modern: early promotion of Mexican art in the United States / Dafne Cruz Porchini -- Friends, foes, or strangers: Mexican Americans and the Mexican muralists in the 1930s / Marcela Guerrero -- Picturing transracial alliances: Mexican muralists and Asian American artists / Shipu Wang -- Migration and muralism: new Negro artists and Socialist art / Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw -- Introducing the "big three" : Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros in the 1920s American press / James Wechsler -- The Mexican revolution as an aesthetic event: early myths and perceptions / Andrew Hemingway -- Artists in the exhibition -- Acknowledgments -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Index -- Photographic credits.

Call Number

JQG 20-449

ISBN

• 9780300246698
• 0300246692

LCCN

2019040165

OCLC

1111979440

Title

Vida Americana : Mexican muralists remake American art, 1925-1945 / edited by Barbara Haskell ; with additional essays by Mark A. Castro [and 9 others].

Publisher

New York : Whitney Museum of American Art; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Haskell, Barbara, editor.

Castro, Mark A., writer of supplementary textual content.

Whitney Museum of American Art, issuing body, host institution.

McNay Art Museum, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 20-449