Vida Americana : Mexican muralists remake American art, 1925-1945 / edited by Barbara Haskell ; with additional essays by Mark A. Castro [and 9 others].

"The first half of the 20th century saw prolific cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico, as artists and intellectuals traversed the countries' shared border in both directions. For U.S. artists, Mexico's monumental public murals portraying social and political subject matter offered...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Whitney Museum of American Art (Issuing body, Host institution)
McNay Art Museum (Host institution)
Other Authors: Haskell, Barbara (Editor)
Castro, Mark A. (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Language:English
Published: New York : New Haven : Whitney Museum of American Art; Yale University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican > Exhibitions.
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican > United States > Influence > Exhibitions.
Art, American > 20th century > Mexican influences > Exhibitions.
ART / Caribbean & Latin American.
ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Group Shows.
Art, American > Mexican influences.
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican.
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican > Influence.
United States.
1900-1999
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Physical Description:255 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Adam D. Weinberg
  • América: Mexican muralism and art in the United States, 1925-1945 / Barbara Haskell
  • Plates: Romantic nationalism and the myth of revolution
  • Orozco on the coasts
  • American historical epics
  • Rivera and the new deal
  • Art as political activism
  • Siqueiros in Los Angeles and New York
  • Prometheus unbound: Orozco in Pomona / Renato González Mello
  • "Only a Rivera": the mural painter in the United States / Mark A. Castro
  • Celluloid América: Siqueiros, Hollywood and plástica fílmica / Anna Indych-López
  • Transcultural modernists as bicultural bridges: Anita Brenner, Alma Reed and Frances Toor / Michael K. Schuessler
  • Mexican modern: early promotion of Mexican art in the United States / Dafne Cruz Porchini
  • Friends, foes, or strangers: Mexican Americans and the Mexican muralists in the 1930s / Marcela Guerrero
  • Picturing transracial alliances: Mexican muralists and Asian American artists / Shipu Wang
  • Migration and muralism: new Negro artists and Socialist art / Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw
  • Introducing the "big three" : Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros in the 1920s American press / James Wechsler
  • The Mexican revolution as an aesthetic event: early myths and perceptions / Andrew Hemingway
  • Artists in the exhibition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Lenders to the exhibition
  • Index
  • Photographic credits.