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Mexico : a landscape revisited = una vision de su paisaje / Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibitions Services, Washington, D.C. and the Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Universe Pub., 1994Description: 128 p. : illus. ; 26 cmISBN:

9780876636176

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DDC classification:

758.172 MEX

Summary: The dramatic landscape of Mexico has inspired generations of Mexican painters. In the art of the past, Mexican landscape held the secondary role of scenic backdrop for historic and religious themes. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, however, attitudes changed toward the landscape, and it became a venerated subject for painting.Summary: El dramático paisaje de México ha inspirado a generaciones de pintores mexicanos. En el arte del pasado, el paisaje mexicano tenía el papel secundario de telón de fondo escénico para temas históricos y religiosos. Sin embargo, a lo largo de los siglos XIX y XX, las actitudes hacia el paisaje cambiaron y se convirtió en un tema venerado para la pintura.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	758.172 MEX (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non fiction		062713

Includes bibliographical references (p. 128)

The dramatic landscape of Mexico has inspired generations of Mexican painters. In the art of the past, Mexican landscape held the secondary role of scenic backdrop for historic and religious themes. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, however, attitudes changed toward the landscape, and it became a venerated subject for painting.

El dramático paisaje de México ha inspirado a generaciones de pintores mexicanos. En el arte del pasado, el paisaje mexicano tenía el papel secundario de telón de fondo escénico para temas históricos y religiosos. Sin embargo, a lo largo de los siglos XIX y XX, las actitudes hacia el paisaje cambiaron y se convirtió en un tema venerado para la pintura.

Bilingual book in English and Spanish

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