Paint the Revolution
Subtitle: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950
By: edited by Matthew Affron, Mark A. Castro, Dafne Cruz Porchini, Renato González Mello ; with essays by Matthew Affron [and 13 others]
Contributors: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Edition: 1st edition.
Publisher: Yale University Press; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes; In association with Yale University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780876332719; 9780300215229; 9786076054024
Subjects: Art and revolutions; Exhibitions; Mexican Mural painting and decoration; Mexican Art; Modernism (Art); Mexican Painting; Art and war; History
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition, held at Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 25, 2016 - January 8, 2017; Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, February 3 - April 30, 2017; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June - September 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-393) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern art and Mexico, 1910-1950; title: Plates. Modernism and Mexicanidad; title: Paint the Revolution; title: In the city; title: Paint the USA; title: In times of war; title: Essays. Witnessing revolution, forging a nation / Robin Adèle Greeley; title: "Everything was for the Revolution": muralism at the Ministry of Public Education / Dafne Cruz Porchini; title: La Gráfica: outlets and workshops / Renato González Mello; title: The best Maugard drawing method and a new generation of artists / Mireida Velázquez; title: Mexico estridentista / Lynda Klich; title: Tales of the city: the contemporáneos and modern Mexican art / Mark A. Castro; title: Syllable, word, discourse: Mexican photography between Abstraction and Montage, 1910-1950 / Laura González Flores; title: North of the border: exhibiting and collecting modern Mexican art in the United States / Joseph J. Rishel; title: Mexican muralism in the United States in the early 1930s: the social, the real, and the modern / Anna Indych-López; title: State ritual, mass politics, or mythopoesis? The many modalities of Mexican muralism, 1929-1950 / Mary K. Coffey; title: Surrealism in Mexico: tensions and encounters / Rita Eder; title: The rhetoric of light: fables of power and allegories of desire in Mexican film from the 1930s / Juan Solís; title: Architecture and avant-garde practice in Mexico, 1928-1950 / Daniel Garza Usabiaga.