Art and revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990

Art and revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990 / David Craven.

"In this uniquely wide-ranging book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. The three great upheavals-- in Mexico (1910-1940), in Cuba (1959-1989), and in Nicaragua (1979-1990)-- were defining moments in...

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Main Author: Craven, David, 1951-2012 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Art, Latin American > 20th century.
Art > Political aspects > Latin America.
Art and revolutions > Latin America.
Art and revolutions
Art, Latin American
Art > Political aspects
Latin America
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Revolving Definitions of the Word 'Revolution'
  • A history of the word "revolution"
  • Representations of the modern body politic
  • Revolutionary forms of democracy
  • The Mexican Revolution (1910-1940). The institutionalization of the revolution in the 1920s ; The Ministry of Education murals (1923-1928) and the new mass politics ; Orozco's murals in the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (1926-1927) ; Chapingo (1926) and the Palacio Nacional (1929-1935) ; The Taller de Gráfica Popular and Estampas de la Revolución ; Critique: the "socialization of art"
  • a future challenge
  • The Cuban Revolution (1959-1989). Cultural policy, public institutions, and dialogical art ; Cultural democracy and popular engagement with art ; Autogestion and the socialization of art ; Popular culture versus populism ; From Cuban pop art through volumen uno (1959-1989) ; Critique: successes and shortcomings on the thirtieth anniversary
  • The Nicaraguan Revolution (1979-1990). Protorevolutionary developments prior to 1979 ; Cultural policy in Nicaragua during the 1980s ; Particular artworks exemplary of the 1980s ; New form of patronage and attendant debates in the 1980s ; Contradictions in the 1980s within the revolution
  • Appendices. A. Diego Rivera, 1929: "New plan of study, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas of Mexico" ; B. Gerardo Mosquera, 1985: "The social function of art in Cuba since the Revolution of 1959" ; C. Ernesto Cardenal, 1980: "The Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979: a culture that is revolutionary, popular, national, and anti-imperialist" ; D. Interview with Ernesto Cardenal, 1983 ; E. Interview with Gioconda Bell of the FSLN, 1990 ; F. Interview with Nicaraguan artists in the UNAP, 1990.

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