Mexico and American modernism /

In the years between the two world wars, the enormous vogue of "things Mexican" reached its peak. Along with the popular appeal of its folkloric and pictorialist traditions, Mexican culture played a significant role in the formation of modernism in the United States. Mexico and American Mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Landau, Ellen G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • The 1930s, Mexico, Art, and Politics. Body Si(gh)ting: Noguchi, Mexico, and Martha Graham
  • Envisioning History: Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish in Morelia
  • The 1940s, Mexico, and Abstract Expressionism. Reinventing Muralism: Pollock, Mexican Art, and the Origins of Action Painting
  • Motherwell, Mexico, and Surrealism Revised
  • Abstract Expressionism and Modernist Identity
  • Conclusion.