The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico (eBook)

Stephanie J. Smith (Autor)

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2017
292 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3569-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation required coercive measures toward dissenters. While artists and intellectuals, some of them professed Communists, sought free expression in matters both artistic and political, Smith reveals how they simultaneously learned the fine art of negotiation with the increasingly authoritarian government in order to secure clout and financial patronage. But the government, Smith shows, also had reason to accommodate artists, and a surprising and volatile interdependence grew between the artists and the politicians. Involving well-known artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as some less well known, including Tina Modotti, Leopoldo Mendez, and Aurora Reyes, politicians began to appropriate the artists' nationalistic visual images as weapons in a national propaganda war. High-stakes negotiating and co-opting took place between the two camps as they sparred over the production of generally accepted notions and representations of the revolution's legacyand what it meant to be authentically Mexican.

Autor

Stephanie J. Smith, associate professor of Latin American and Mexican history at The Ohio State University, is the author of Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatan Women and the Realities of Patriarchy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.11.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 12 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: and the Taller de Gráfica Popular, or the Popular Graphic Workshop (TGP) • and the Taller de Gráfica Popular, or the Popular Graphic Workshop (TGP) • Anita Brenner • Aurora Reyes • Culture in postrevolutionary Mexico • David Alfaro Siqueiros • El Machete • Frances (Paca) Toor • Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera • Lola Álvarez Bravo • Lola Álvarez Bravo • Mexican Revolution • Mexico’s Communist Party • Mexico’s Communist Party • Partido Comunista Mexicano • Popular Front, Lázaro Cárdenas • Popular Front, Lázaro Cárdenas • Postrevolutionary Mexico • radical artists • the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios, or the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (LEAR) • Tina Modotti
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3569-0 / 1469635690
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3569-9 / 9781469635699