Jean Charlot
MEXICAN PAINTING
Author:
Jean Charlot
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ISBN: 978-1-68325-456-0
Osvaldo Barra Cunningham with his mural San Marcos Fair. Photograph. Family collection.
Contents
I. Dawn of the Mural Renaissance
Towards a National Art
Muralism: A Political Art?
José Vasconselos, Secretary of Education
II. The First Murals and Their Masters
San Pedro y San Pablo
The Preparatoria School: Diego Rivera
Dieguitos
The Preparatoria School: David Alfaro Siqueiros
The Preparatoria School: José Clemente Orozco
III. An Early End
The Ministry of Education
Riots at the Preparatoria School
The End of the Vasconcelos Era
Renaissance in Guadalajara
Conclusion
List of Illustrations