Art and Architecture in Mexico: 0 (World of Art) - Softcover

James Oles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500204063 ISBN 13: 9780500204061

Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

This new interpretive history of Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the 21st century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. James Oles ranges widely across media and genres, offering new readings of paintings, murals, sculptures, buildings, prints and photographs. He interprets major works by such famous artists as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, but also discusses less familiar figures who were equally important in the construction of national identity., The story of Mexican art is set in its rich historical context by the books treatment of political and social change. The author draws on recent scholarship to examine crucial issues of race, class and gender, including an exploration of the work of indigenous artists during the colonial period, and of women artists in the 19th and 20th centuries. Throughout, Oles shows how artists in Mexico participated in local and international developments, and highlights the important role played by Mexicans in the art world of the last five centuries.

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Críticas

'A sweeping panorama of five rich and diverse centuries of Mexican art and architecture. The best and most up-to-date survey of its kind' - Alan Knight, Oxford University

Biografía del autor

James Oles is Senior Lecturer in Art at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and adjunct curator of Latin American art at the college's Davis Museum and Cultural Center.

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• Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0500204063
• ISBN 13: 9780500204061
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432