"At the forefront of the social revolution that transformed Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century were three artists whose work had a great impact on the country's culture and politics: Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. This latest volume in the "MoMA Artist Series" looks at ten important works by these artists represented in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. An essay by art histori ..."
"Lola Alvarez Bravo was a pioneer of photomontage and a leading figure--along with Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Diego Rivera and others--in Mexico's post-revolution cultural renaissance. "Lola Alvarez Bravo and the Photography of an Era" accompanies a touring exhibition presented at the Museo Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo in Mexico City, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California and the Center for Creative Photog ..."
Diego Rivera's America(First Edition) von JamesOles Hardcover, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2020 von University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-34440-2, ISBN: 0-520-34440-5
"This volume accompanies a major exhibition highlighting Diego Rivera's work in Mexico and the United States from the early 1920s through the early 1940s."
"When Frida Kahlo died, her husband Diego Rivera asked the poet Carlos Pellicerto turn the Blue House into a museum that the people of Mexico could visit to admire the work of the artist. Pellicer selected those of Frida's paintings which were in the house, along with drawings, photographs, books, and ceramics, maintaining the spaces just as Frida and Diego had arranged them to live and work in. The rest of the objects, clothing, documen ..."
"The little-known color photography of Manuel Álvarez Bravo, presented in a beautiful cloth binding with a tipped-on cover imageManuel Álvarez Bravo produced around 3,000 images in color over the course of his career, though he has tended to be better known for his black-and-white photography. In Color presents more than 80 of his most significant color photographs, many of them published for the first time.A broad spectrum of subject ma ..."
Art and Architecture in Mexico(1st Edition) (World of Art) von JamesOles Paperback, 432 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-20406-1, ISBN: 0-500-20406-3
"“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 ..."
Art_Latin_America Against the Survey von JamesOles, Lisa Fischman Paperback, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2019 von Davis Museum, Wellesley College ISBN-13: 978-1-4773-1909-3, ISBN: 1-4773-1909-3
"The Davis Museum’s groundbreaking curatorial project, Art__Latin__America: Against the Survey, reconsiders conventional frameworks for understanding, exhibiting, and discussing Latin American and Latinx art. This illustrated volume, published with the exhibition, features 70 essays by leading scholars and specialists from across the Americas on an exceptional selection of art works, many never before seen or published.The Davis collecti ..."
"Expanding our understanding of Mexico’s important role in the story of modern art and design through the works of six important women artists and designers This stunning book unites for the first time the pioneering work of six artists and designers: Clara Porset, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Cynthia Sargent, Sheila Hicks. Inspired by both local traditions and modern methods, these women made art that reflected and contr ..."
"•The ultimate guide to the life and work of the last Mexican surrealist, creator of the infamous 'Hand Chair'•Never-before-seen hypnotic and dazzling images•World renowned cultural authorities, like Leonora Carrington and Fernando del Paso, grace the pages of this unique bookPedro Friedeberg, one of the most outstanding contemporary Mexican artists, is virtually impossible to pinpoint. Whether because of the almost baroque density of hi ..."
"El ornamento, que en muchas antiguas civilizaciones milenarias cumplía una función sagrada, tristemente ha desaparecido de nuestra cultura agnóstica, inmoral y pragmática. El minimalismo, o sea el nihilismo, es considerado un estilo. Yo, eternamente enamorado del arabesco y el ornamento egipcio, gótico, barroco, victoriano y aún precortesiano, he tratado de restablecer este amor por el adorno, y muchos de mis cuadros semejan un compendi ..."
Lola Alvarez Bravo(1st Edition) In Her Own Light (The Archive, 31) von Olivier Debroise, Lola Alvarez Bravo, JamesOles Paperback, 88 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1994 von Center For Creative Photography ISBN-13: 978-0-938262-24-4, ISBN: 0-938262-24-6
"Mis fotos, mis arte. Throughout her photographic career as a photojournalist, portraitist, and political photographer, Lola Alvarez Bravo kept a body of cherished images as her own art. In Her Own Light is devoted to her work as an artist and includes those photographs of Mexico, her true subject, that place her among the renowned photographic interpreters of that country in the modern period: Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Tina Modotti, a ..."
"When the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the daunting task of building a cohesive nation. It had to establish control over a disparate and needy population and prepare the country for global economic competition. As part of this effort, the government enlisted the energy of artists and intellectuals in cultivating a distinctly Mexican identity. It devised a project for the incorporatio ..."
"Preceded by the heroic modernism of the 1920s and abruptly curtailed by World War II, the heterogeneous art movements of the 1930s have been comparatively neglected as concurrent cultural phenomena. The 30s were much more than a period of transition or crisis, witnessing as they did the massive expansion of Surrealism, and fervent debate between new movements in abstract and realist painting. Political turbulence was of course rife at t ..."
"Richly illustrated with works of both high culture and commercial kitsch - many of them never before reproduced - South of the Border revisits an era when Mexico captured the North American imagination.Between the final years of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-17 and the immediate aftermath of World War II, dozens of U.S. painters and photographers flocked to Mexico, among them Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Marsden Hartley, Helen Levitt, J ..."
"Dolores "Lola" Martinez de Anda (1903-93) became a photographer after her marriage to Manuel Alvarez Bravo in 1925. From the 1930s through the 1960s, Lola--as she was always known--was the leading female photographer in Mexico. Her diverse output includes portraits of the day's leading artists and intellectuals, documents of post-Revolutionary social reforms and images of life on the streets of cities and villages from Acapulco to Verac ..."
"This groundbreaking book looks at the influence California and Mexico have had on each other's architecture and design in the 20th century. The histories of Mexico and the United States have been intertwined since the 18th century, when both were colonies of European empires. America's fascination with Mexican culture emerged in the 19th century and continues to this day. In turn, Mexico looked to the U.S. as a model of modernity, its h ..."
"This book is the culmination of a project by artist Eduardo Abaroa that began in 2012 as an art exhibition in kurimanzutto gallery, Mexico City, and gradually increased in scope to include photography, drawing, group discussions, archives, ..."