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South of the border : Mexico in the american imagination 1914-1947 / México en la imaginación NorteAmericana 1914-1947 / James Oles

By:

Oles, James

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press , c1993Description: 296 p. : illus. ; 23 cmISBN:

01560082042

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DDC classification:

LAS 709.72 OLE

Summary: 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 Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Helen Levitt, Marsden Hartley, Josef Albers, Milton Avery, Robert Motherwell, and Jackson Pollock. Oles considers the Mexico - inspired work of these and 40 or so other U.S. artists, along with representative works of their Mexican counterparts, and presents examples from high culture to commercial kitsch, as well as Mexican folk and tourist art, that contributed to America's lingering and overidealized image of Mexico today. Essays place the artists and their work within their original political and cultural context. This impressive and richly illustrated exhibition catalog includes capsule biographies.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 709.72 OLE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		008649

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held Sept. 10, 1993-Nov. 21, 1993, at the Yale University Art Gallery, and elsewhere.

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 Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Helen Levitt, Marsden Hartley, Josef Albers, Milton Avery, Robert Motherwell, and Jackson Pollock. Oles considers the Mexico - inspired work of these and 40 or so other U.S. artists, along with representative works of their Mexican counterparts, and presents examples from high culture to commercial kitsch, as well as Mexican folk and tourist art, that contributed to America's lingering and overidealized image of Mexico today. Essays place the artists and their work within their original political and cultural context. This impressive and richly illustrated exhibition catalog includes capsule biographies.

Bilingual in Spanish and English

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