Mexico modern
Subtitle: art, commerce, and cultural exchange, 1920-1945
By: edited by Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins
Contributors: Harry Ransom Center; Museum of the City of New York
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9783777428567
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Mexican Art; Exhibitions; Foreign influences; Cultural relations
Other titles: Art, commerce, and cultural exchange, 1920-1945
Description: At the beginning of the 20th century a lively and profitable exchange developed between artists in the United States and Mexico. The Americans were full of enthusiasm for the Mexican synthesis of history and modernity and their social commitment, which contrasted strongly with the consumer culture in the U.S. The Mexican artists in turn found important financiers across the border. The volume shows through paintings, drawings, photographs and graphical works from the Harry Ransom Center in Austin and other important museums how this intercultural network brought forth a large number of world-famous artists.00Exhibition: Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin, United States (11.09.2017-01.01.2018) / Museum of the City of New York, United States (2018).
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Mexico Modern" held at the Harry Ransom Centre at the University of Texas, Austin, September 11, 2017 - January 1, 2018; and at the Museum of the City of New York, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Stephen Enniss and Whitney W. Donhauser; title: Preface / Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins; title: All eyes on Mexico : Revolution and speculation / George F. Flaherty; title: Orchestrating the Mexican Movement in the United States: Chicago, Los Angeles , and New York / Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins; title: Portfolio : Artists; title: Portfolio : Promoters; title: Endnotes.