Siqueiros
Subtitle: muralismo, cine y revolución : consideraciones en torno a Ejercicio Plástico, 1933-2010
By: Ana Martinez Quijano
Contributors: Siqueiros, David Alfaro
Publisher: Ediciones Larivière
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Buenos Aires
Language: spa
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9789879395608
Subjects: Mural painting and decoration; Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Muralismo, cine y revolución :
Description: Hidden and predestined to be in the dark from its origin the mural "Ejercicioplástico" (Plastic study, 1933) by noted Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros, is one of Latin America's masterworks. Its story has the ingredients of a soap-opera: clandestinelove affairs, revolutionary ideals, financial and political interests, and a legal battle that stilltoday keeps us in suspense. The attractive side of this suspense novel has sometimesovershadowed the analysis of the aesthetic values of the work. Instead of just decorating abasement of a Buenos Aires "quinta", through his mural Siqueiros concentrated in the visualproblems and narrowed the relationship between art and technology. He fabricated an authenticmachine of perception, years before kinetic, installation and site specific art were firstdeveloped; he created an artwork with scarce antecedents in art history or any other derivation and whose aesthetic values are just coming out to light. Privileged witness to the history of themural, journalist and art critic Martínez Quijano presents a committed and rigorous analysis of an art masterpiece considered a rarity in the history of the muralism and international avant-garde.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.