Art and Architecture in Mexico (World of Art)

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“A lucid―from time to time, even poetic―summary of five hundred years of Mexican art. The illustrated artworks are well-chosen and beautifully integrated into Oles’s text. Indeed, it feels as if his words emanate from the art itself.” –Donna Pierce, Denver Art Museum

This new interpretive history of Mexican art from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the twenty-first century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. James Oles ranges widely across media and genres, offering new readings of painting, sculpture, architecture, prints, and photographs. He interprets major works by such famous artists as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, but also discusses less familiar figures in history and landscape painting, muralism, and conceptual art.

The story of Mexican art is set in its wealthy historical context by the book’s remedy of political and social change. The creator draws on latest scholarship to examine a very powerful issues of race, class, and gender, including the work of indigenous artists throughout the colonial period, and of women artists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

All through, Oles shows how Mexican artists participated in local and international developments. He considers both native and foreign-born artists, from Baroque architects to kinetic sculptors, and highlights the necessary role played by Mexicans in the global art scene of the last five centuries.
276 illustration, 249 in color

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