Blick ins Buch

The Mexico Diary

Winold Reiss between Vogue Mexico and Harlem Renaissance. An Illustrated Trilingual Edition with Commentary and Musical Interpretation

Frank Mehring (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

244 Seiten | Ausstattung: Audio-CD

2016
WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
978-3-86821-594-6 (ISBN)

Lese- und Medienproben

Inhaltsverzeichnis (PDF)

Artikel merken

The German-American artist Winold Reiss (1886-1953)-painter, designer, teacher-has been characterized as "a modern Cellini," defying instant categorization and labels. To this day, he remains something of an enigma to art critics. Winold Reiss stands at the beginning of a new American Modernism approach to depicting the vitality of African American culture. In 1920, while struggling through a creative and personal crisis, he went on a two-month-long trip through Mexico. His diary offers a unique glimpse into the artist's mind and heart. Reading it in conjunction with his drawings helps us better understand the function of Mexican art, folklore, religiosity and the history of mestizaje in the context of the stylizations of the cultural space which James Weldon Johnson called "Black Manhattan."The Mexico Diary makes Reiss's text available in the original German as well as in English and Spanish translations and interlinks it with his sketches and paintings. The book also features an audio CD with key parts of the diary set to music and performed by Jens Barnieck and Frank Mehring.Winold Reiss's Mexico diary is a remarkable soliloquy of America's little known but hugely influential transnational visual artist. We see him traversing borders and breaking free of American materialism to a nature-based vision of New World spirituality. But we also learn that this premier multiculturalist was more successful embracing the New Negro and the New Mexico than the New Woman. In that, he reminds us of the breakthroughs and bugaboos of twentieth century modernism.-Jeffrey C. StewartProfessor & Chair at the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa BarbaraFrank Mehring is at the forefront of scholars re-writing the history of American art by focusing on those artists who championed the racial diversity of the New World. In his Mexico Diary, Winold Reiss can be seen as a romantic and a realist: romantic in his rejection of European/American commercialism and realist in his understanding that native peoples have been profoundly influenced by values, religions, and markets that are both European and indigenous.-Patricia HillsProfessor Emerita, Boston University

Frank Mehring, geboren 1970. Studium der Anglistik, Geschichts- und Musikwissenschaften. 2001 Promotion in Giessen. 1995/96 Visiting Scholar an der University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1997/98 Visiting Fellow an der Harvard University. Derzeit Forschungstätigkeit am John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien der Freien Universität Berlin.

Contents

Acknowledgments ix

List of Illustrations xi

Foreword by Sydelle Rubin-Dienstfrey xv

Winold Reiss (1886-1953): A Selective Chronology of his Life and Work
by C. Ford Peatross with Renate Reiss xix

I. Introduction: The Mexico Diary-Winold Reiss between Vogue Mexico
and Harlem Renaissance 1

1. Remapping American Modernism 1
2. The Mexican Imagination in Germany 10
3. To Harlem via Mexico: The Mexico Diary 17
4. Confronting the Metropolitan Moloch 29
5. Mediating the Mexican Experience 37
6. Conclusion 46

II. The Mexico Diary of Winold Reiss 51

Note on the Diary Text 51
Mexico Diary Route: Map 52
Meine Reise durch Mexico
(Original German Version) 54
My Travels through Mexico
(English Translation) 91
Mi Viaje por México
(Spanish Translation) 125
Facsimile Prints of Select Diary Pages 163

III. Mexican Drawings and Paintings by Winold Reiss 171

Bibliography 209
Audio CD Vogue Mexico 215

Erscheinungsdatum	14.07.2016
Reihe/Serie	Inter-American Studies / Estudios Interamericanos ; 16
Verlagsort	Trier
Sprache	englisch; deutsch; spanisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	414 g
Einbandart	kartoniert
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Schlagworte	American Modernism • Diary • Kunst • Mexican Art • Mexico • Mexiko • Mexiko, Kunst • Reiss, Winold • Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte • Tagebuch • Tagebücher, Briefe, Notizbücher
ISBN-10	3-86821-594-8 / 3868215948
ISBN-13	978-3-86821-594-6 / 9783868215946
Zustand	Neuware