The years from 1945 to 1985 are often identified as the moment in which Los Angeles established itself as a leading cultural center in America. However, this conception of its history entirely excludes the very controversial presence of the Mexican muralists, as well as the work of other artists who were influenced by them and responded to their ideas. It is likewise often thought that Los Angeles' Mexican culture arrived full formed from outside it, when in fact that culture originated within the city--it was in Los Angeles and Southern California that José Vasconcelos, Ricardo Flores Magón, Octavio Paz and other intellectuals developed the iconography of modern Mexico, while Anglos and Chicanos were developing their own. David Alfaro Siqueiros, Clemente Orozco, Alfredo Ramos Martínez and Jean Charlot made some of their earliest murals in Los Angeles, influencing the Mexican, Mexican-American and Chicano artists of the 1970s and 80s. MEX/LA: Mexican Modernism(s) in Los Angeles 1930-1985 focuses on the construction of different notions of "Mexicanidad" within modernist and contemporary art created in Los Angeles. From the Olvera Street mural by Siqueiros, to the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and the Disney silver-screen productions, to the revitalization of the street mural, up to the performance art of Guillermo Gómez-Peña, MEX/LA explores the bi-national and hybrid forms of artistic practices, popular culture and mass-media arts that have so uniquely shaped Los Angeles' cultural panorama.

MEX/LA: Mexican Modernisms in Los Angeles 1930-1985

Botey, Mariana

Gamboa, Harry

Mallet, Ana Elena

Paquette, Catha

Reference

Hatje Cantz

En este libro la autora cuestiona las representaciones de lo indigena en la historia y el arte mexicano. Su analisis se enfoca particularmente en las formas narrativas, mesianicas y profeticas, de pasados y futuros imaginarios. Botey analiza el modo en que los europeos imaginaron e interpretaron las culturas nativas. Conceptos y metaforas como la Revolucion Indigena de Artaud, la economia general de Bataille, el comunismo primitivo de Bandelier y la Republica india de Rousseau, son reconstruidos y contextualizados desde la genealogia y el archivo mexicano, a partir de la teoria critica poscolonial.

Zonas de disturbio. Espectros en Mexico indigena en la modernidad (Spanish Edition)

SIGLO VEINTIUNO, EDITORES

According to press reports, more bullets were fired in Mexico in 2008 than in any other year in recent history. What Else Could We Talk About? gathers Teresa Margolles' reflections on the crusade against drugs, revealing some tangled and murky interconnections.

Teresa Margolles: What Else Could We Talk About?

Arts & Photography

Escohotado, Antonio

Mendoza, Élmer

Pimentel, Taiyana

Diazmartínez, Ernesto

Margolles, Teresa

History & Criticism

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