Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950

Contents

Modern art and Mexico, 1910-1950 -- Plates. Modernism and Mexicanidad -- Paint the Revolution -- In the city -- Paint the USA -- In times of war -- Essays. Witnessing revolution, forging a nation / Robin Adèle Greeley -- "Everything was for the Revolution": muralism at the Ministry of Public Education / Dafne Cruz Porchini -- La Gráfica: outlets and workshops / Renato González Mello -- The best Maugard drawing method and a new generation of artists / Mireida Velázquez -- Mexico estridentista / Lynda Klich -- Tales of the city: the contemporáneos and modern Mexican art / Mark A. Castro -- Syllable, word, discourse: Mexican photography between Abstraction and Montage, 1910-1950 / Laura González Flores -- North of the border: exhibiting and collecting modern Mexican art in the United States / Joseph J. Rishel -- Mexican muralism in the United States in the early 1930s: the social, the real, and the modern / Anna Indych-López -- State ritual, mass politics, or mythopoesis? The many modalities of Mexican muralism, 1929-1950 / Mary K. Coffey -- Surrealism in Mexico: tensions and encounters / Rita Eder -- The rhetoric of light: fables of power and allegories of desire in Mexican film from the 1930s / Juan Solís -- Architecture and avant-garde practice in Mexico, 1928-1950 / Daniel Garza Usabiaga.