México 1900-1950 : Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco and the avant-garde /
Arteaga, Agustín,editor,writer of supplementary textual content.
Dallas Museum of Art,host institution,organizer.
Museo Nacional de Arte (Mexico),host institution,organizer.
"México 1900-1950 offers an unprecedented survey of Mexican Art from the turn of the century through the Revolution (1910-20) and until the early 1950s. It examines key works across different mediums by major Mexican artists, including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and José Clemente Orozco, as well as by lesser-known figures and women artists. The catalogue showcases Mexican modern art as its own distinct avant-garde, fundamentally different from that of Europe. Although many Mexican artists lived and practiced in Paris during the early decades of the 20th century, they eventually returned home and drew extensively from themes surrounding nationhood and Mexico's rich, mythical past, poignantly articulating their country's revolutionary ideals, traditions, and aspirations. Over 2150 illustrations foreground this wholly original and sweeping study of Mexico as a hotbed for modernism and artistic achievement"--
Published in conjunction with the exhibition México 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco and the avant-garde, held at Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, March 12-July 16, 2017 and co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes/Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico.
"A presentation of the exhibition with a slightly different checklist, Mexique 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco et les avant-gardes, co-organized by the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes/Museo Nacional de Arte, was on display at the Grand Palais in Paris fom October 5, 2016, to January 23, 2017."--Title page verso.
"The essays, short texts, and artist biographies have been translated from Mexique 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco et les avants-gardes (co-published in 2016 by the Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais and the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes/Museo Nacional de Arte)"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-358).
Art before the Mexican Revolution. Mexico's renaissance / by Agustín Arteaga-- From Symbolism to the avant-garde: Roberto Montenegro, Diego Rivera, Angel Zárraga, and other Mexicans in Paris / by Juan Manuel Bonet -- Mexico and the Revolution. The Mexican school of painting / by Laura González Matute -- Artists who are women; women who are strong / by Paulina Bravo Villarreal -- Other faces of the Mexican school of painting. Breaking free: "outsider" artists of the Mexican school / by Silvia Navarrete Bouzard -- The clash of two different worlds. A bustling sanctuary: Mexican artists in the Iron Babylon / by Antonio Saborit -- Surrealism and Mexico / by Emmanuel Guigon.
"México 1900-1950 offers an unprecedented survey of Mexican Art from the turn of the century through the Revolution (1910-20) and until the early 1950s. It examines key works across different mediums by major Mexican artists, including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and José Clemente Orozco, as well as by lesser-known figures and women artists. The catalogue showcases Mexican modern art as its own distinct avant-garde, fundamentally different from that of Europe. Although many Mexican artists lived and practiced in Paris during the early decades of the 20th century, they eventually returned home and drew extensively from themes surrounding nationhood and Mexico's rich, mythical past, poignantly articulating their country's revolutionary ideals, traditions, and aspirations. Over 2150 illustrations foreground this wholly original and sweeping study of Mexico as a hotbed for modernism and artistic achievement"--
Art, Mexican
Modernism (Art)
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ART / Caribbean & Latin American.
ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / Group Shows.