Baja viscosidad
Subtitle: el nacimiento del fascismo y otras soluciones = Low viscosity: the birth of fascism and other solutions
By: Elsa Arroyo ...[and others]
Contributors: Siqueiros, David Alfaro; Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (Mexico City, Mexico)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas
Published: 2013
Place of publication: México, D. F
Language: spa; eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9786070240546
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Painting; Technique; Art appreciation
Other titles: Nacimiento del fascismo y otras soluciones; Low viscosity :; Birth of fascism and other solutions
Description: In 1936 David Alfaro Siqueiros painted "El Nacimiento del Fascismo" (Birth of Fascism), in the experimental workshop he established in New York, and where he worked with non-traditional materials and supports, mostly used for the creation of political propaganda. The Birth of Fascism (1936), a key element in Siqueiros' ideological representation and creative experiments, led him to apply a method of absorption of two or more colors whose effects he called "controlled accidents". This is the first work in which he used pyroxylin applied with an airgun, a technique which became a distinctive style of his production. The present edition is the outcome of a collaboration research analysis between the Museum of Modern Art of New York and IIE-UNAM to establish the dates and materials of the different modifications (below layers of painting) that Siqueiros did in to his painting the following 10 years.
Notes: The present publication is the result of the collaboration among a number of specialists centered on the exhibition "Low viscosity: the birth of fascism and other solutions" presented at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (SAPS) between December, 2006 and March, 2007 --Verso Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-278)

In Spanish.
Table of contents: title: Baja viscosidad: El nacimiento del fascismo y otras soluciones = Low viscosity: the birth of fascism and other solutions / Elsa Arroyo; title: David Alfaro Siqueiros y el dominio de los materiales industriales 1931-1945 = David Alfaro Siqueiros and the domain of industrial materials, 1935-1945 / Elsa Arroyo, Anny Aviram, Chris McGlinchey y Sandra Zetina; title: Un besitiario iconográfico para el fin del mundo = An iconographic bestiary for the End of the World / Miguel Angel Fernández Delgado; title: Métodos instrumentales de análisis y condiciones experimentales del estudio 95 = Instrumental methods of analysis and experimental conditions