MEXICAN MURALISM
A Critical History
edited by
Alejandro Anreus, Leonard Folgarait,
and Robin Adèle Greeley
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations Ɠ xi
Acknowledgments Ɠ xvii
Introduction
Robin Adèle Greeley Ɠ 1
PART 1. MEXICAN MURALISM: BEGINNINGS, DEVELOPMENT, IDEOLOGIES,
AND NATIONAL RESPONSES
1. Muralism and the State in Post-Revolution Mexico,
1920–1970 13 Ɠ
Robin Adèle Greeley
2. Los Tres Grandes: Ideologies and Styles Ɠ 37
Alejandro Anreus
3. “All Mexico on a Wall”: Diego Rivera’s Murals at the Ministry of
Public Education 56Ɠ
Mary K. Coffey
4. Siqueiros’ Communist Proposition for Mexican Muralism:
A Mural for the Mexican Electricians’ Syndicate 75 Ɠ
Jennifer A. Jolly
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5. José Clemente Orozco’s Use of Architecture in the
Dartmouth Mural 93 Ɠ
Leonard Folgarait
6. Murales Estridentes: Tensions and Affinities between
Estridentismo and Early Muralism Ɠ 108
Tatiana Flores
7. Young Muralists at the Abelardo L. Rodríguez Market Ɠ 125
Esther Acevedo
8. Nietzsche contra Marx in Mexico: The Contemporáneos,
Muralism, and Debates over “Revolutionary” Art in 1930s
Mexico 148
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Robin Adèle Greeley
PART 2. MURALISM’S HEMISPHERIC INFLUENCES
9. Siqueiros’ Travels and “Alternative Muralisms” in Argentina
and Cuba 177 Ɠ
Alejandro Anreus
10. Social Realism and Constructivist Abstraction: The Limits
of the Debate on Muralism in the Río de la Plata Region
(1930–1950) 196 Ɠ
Gabriel Peluffo Linari
11. Mexican Muralism in the United States: Controversies, Paradoxes,
and Publics 208 Ɠ
Anna Indych-López
PART 3. CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES TO MURALISM
12. Murals and Marginality in Mexico City: The Case of Tepito
Arte Acá 229Ɠ
Leonard Folgarait
13. Radical Mestizaje in Chicano/a Murals Ɠ 243
Holly Barnet-Sanchez
14. An Unauthorized History of Post–Mexican School
Muralism 263 Ɠ
Bruce Campbell
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PART 4. CHRONOLOGY AND PRIMARY TEXTS
Chronology Ɠ 283
Alejandro Anreus with Holly Barnet-Sanchez and Bruce Campbell
Primary Texts Ɠ 319
edited by Alejandro Anreus
Manifesto of the Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors
(Mexico City, 1923) Ɠ 319
José Clemente Orozco, “New World, New Races and New Art”
(New York, 1929) Ɠ 321
Diego Rivera, “The Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art”
(Baltimore, 1932) Ɠ 322
David Alfaro Siqueiros, “A Call to Argentine Artists”
(Buenos Aires, 1933) Ɠ 330
David Alfaro Siqueiros, “Toward a Transformation of the Plastic Arts”
(New York, 1934) Ɠ 332
José Clemente Orozco, “Orozco ‘Explains’ ”
(New York, 1940) Ɠ 335
Bibliography 339
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List of Contributors Ɠ 357
Index Ɠ 000
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