Vida Americana, Mexican muralists remake American art 1925-1945

Whitney Museum of American Art, Yale University press

2020

1 vol. (255 p.) ; ill.

31 cm

anglais

Exposition, New York, Whitney museum of American art, 2020

978-0-300-24669-8

"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 US 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 largescale murals working sidebyside 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 wideranging and profound influence the Mexican muralists had on the style subject matter and ideology of art in the United States between 1925 and 1945"

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