Mexican art today

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M EXICAN ART TODAY by Luis Cardoza y Aragón
The changes wrought by the Mexican Revolution of 1910 in the national life and culture were particulary marked in painting. It smashed the mold of the simple copying of foreign models in which it had been locked. The key figures in this transformation of their country's art were Diego Rivera, Jósé Clemente Orozco and Dávid Alfaro Siqueiros, whose murai works constituted the decisive step. MEXICAN ART TODAY is a panoramic view of the subject from those beginnings to the most recent trends as represented by her outstanding artists. To make up this volume, Luis Cardoza y Aragón, the distinguished Guatemalan critic, author of numerous studies in the field, has selected from among them those most represent-ative for revealing this half century-long process reaching from Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros to Rufino Tamayo, now part of the current, that runs counter to theirs, through such intermediate figures as Agustín Lazo and Frida Kahlo to... Tovább

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M EXICAN ART TODAY by Luis Cardoza y Aragón
The changes wrought by the Mexican Revolution of 1910 in the national life and culture were particulary marked in painting. It smashed the mold of the simple copying of foreign models in which it had been locked. The key figures in this transformation of their country's art were Diego Rivera, Jósé Clemente Orozco and Dávid Alfaro Siqueiros, whose murai works constituted the decisive step. MEXICAN ART TODAY is a panoramic view of the subject from those beginnings to the most recent trends as represented by her outstanding artists. To make up this volume, Luis Cardoza y Aragón, the distinguished Guatemalan critic, author of numerous studies in the field, has selected from among them those most represent-ative for revealing this half century-long process reaching from Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros to Rufino Tamayo, now part of the current, that runs counter to theirs, through such intermediate figures as Agustín Lazo and Frida Kahlo to Günther Gerzso, Pedro Coronel, Ricardo Martinez, Jósé Luis Cuevas and others seeking new hori-zons.
Alsó integrated into the development of the central theme are the pre-Columbian heritage, particularly its sculpture, colonial art, popular art, and the later precursors, Jósé Guadalupe Posada, Jósé Maria Velasco, Dr. Atl, Francisco Goitia. Through text and plates, Cardoza y Aragón thus analyzes Mexico's modern artistic manifestations in con-tinuity and against their complete background. Cardoza y Aragón's subtle many-faceted exposition probes deep into the personalities of the creators and their works making primarily plastic judgements and evalua-tions but in consideration always of the affirmations of the newest generations. Vissza