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Arte Popular

Author : The Mexican Museum
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1797209035
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Arte Popular written by The Mexican Museum and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arte Popular features 100 pieces from Rex May's extensive collection of exquisite hand-crafted objects from all over Mexico. Coming from the reputable Mexican Museum, this volume demonstrates the dramatic power of folk art. This bilingual volume provides a veritable treasure trove of discoveries for the curious reader. • Features bold and atmospheric photographs • Includes scholarly essays that delve into the collection's origins and significance • A visual treat for lovers of Mexican art, craft, and visual culture The Rex May Collection–bequeathed to the Mexican Museum by the legendary 39-Mile-Drive sign designer–demonstrates the dramatic power of folk art. This book is a companion to the opening of the Mexican Museum building in downtown San Francisco's Yerba Buena museum neighborhood. • Perfect for museum goers and fans of Mexican arts and crafts • The Mexican Museum has been a San Francisco cultural destination and educational resource for 37 years, and became the only San Francisco affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution in 2012. • You'll love this book if you love books like Mexican Details by Joe P. Carr and Karen Witynski, Crafts of Mexico by Margarita de Orellana and Alberto Ruy Sanchez, and Masks of Mexico: Tigers, Devils, and the Dance of Life by Barbara Mauldin.

Idols Behind Altars

Author : Anita Brenner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486423036
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Idols Behind Altars written by Anita Brenner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-12-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art critic, historian and journalist Anita Brenner (1905-1974) is acknowledged to be one of the most important and perceptive writers on the art, culture, and political history of Mexico. Idols Behind Altars is her influential historical and critical study of modern Mexican art and its roots. It was one of the first books to afford Mexican art the same serious considerations as European and Asian art and remains indispensable for anyone interested in the subject. The works of such major figures as Diego Rivera, Jóse Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Francisco Goitia and Jean Charlot are examined in the cultural context of pre-Columbian times through the 19th century. Brenner's astute analysis of Mexican history, her keen insights into revolutionary politics, and her passionate advocacy of Mexican art infuse this book with seminal importance. 117 illustrations — including some early photographs by Edward Weston — enhance the text.

Energetic Characterization of Building Evolution

Author : Jefferson Eloy Torres-Quezada
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031215982
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Energetic Characterization of Building Evolution written by Jefferson Eloy Torres-Quezada and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the evolution of the construction systems and the required materials in Ecuador from 1980 to 2020, from different perspectives including environmental, economic, thermal behaviour, modulation design, and integrity of construction. It focuses on the relationship between energy and the evolution of construction in the Andean region of Ecuador. The theoretical framework of the book shows the extent of quantitative data collected from several sources and experimental data from studies carried out in local buildings. It gives a heritage-environmental perspective of building materials from Cuenca city, which has received the nomination of Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This book will help construction industry professionals, architects, and designers to make sustainable decisions for future construction, focused on different components of a building. Readers can extract a set of guidelines aimed at solving thermal, environmental, aesthetic, and even heritage issues of the construction sector of this region, from the specific perspective of building materials.

The Eagle and the Virgin

Author : Mary Kay Vaughan
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387522
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Eagle and the Virgin written by Mary Kay Vaughan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the fighting of the Mexican Revolution died down in 1920, the national government faced the daunting task of building a cohesive nation. It had to establish control over a disparate and needy population and prepare the country for global economic competition. As part of this effort, the government enlisted the energy of artists and intellectuals in cultivating a distinctly Mexican identity. It devised a project for the incorporation of indigenous peoples and oversaw a vast, innovative program in the arts. The Eagle and the Virgin examines the massive nation-building project Mexico undertook between 1920 and 1940. Contributors explore the nation-building efforts of the government, artists, entrepreneurs, and social movements; their contradictory, often conflicting intersection; and their inevitably transnational nature. Scholars of political and social history, communications, and art history describe the creation of national symbols, myths, histories, and heroes to inspire patriotism and transform workers and peasants into efficient, productive, gendered subjects. They analyze the aesthetics of nation building made visible in murals, music, and architecture; investigate state projects to promote health, anticlericalism, and education; and consider the role of mass communications, such as cinema and radio, and the impact of road building. They discuss how national identity was forged among social groups, specifically political Catholics, industrial workers, middle-class women, and indigenous communities. Most important, the volume weighs in on debates about the tension between the eagle (the modernizing secular state) and the Virgin of Guadalupe (the Catholic defense of faith and morality). It argues that despite bitter, violent conflict, the symbolic repertoire created to promote national identity and memory making eventually proved capacious enough to allow the eagle and the virgin to coexist peacefully. Contributors. Adrian Bantjes, Katherine Bliss, María Teresa Fernández, Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Joanne Hershfield, Stephen E. Lewis, Claudio Lomnitz, Rick A. López, Sarah M. Lowe, Jean Meyer, James Oles, Patrice Olsen, Desmond Rochfort, Michael Snodgrass, Mary Kay Vaughan, Marco Velázquez, Wendy Waters, Adriana Zavala

A Revolution in Movement

Author : K. Mitchell Snow
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072735
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Revolution in Movement written by K. Mitchell Snow and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book in the Humanities A Revolution in Movement is the first book to illuminate how collaborations between dancers and painters shaped Mexico’s postrevolutionary cultural identity. K. Mitchell Snow traces this relationship throughout nearly half a century of developments in Mexican dance—the emulation of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in the 1920s, the adoption of U.S.-style modern dance in the 1940s, and the creation of ballet-inspired folk dance in the 1960s. Snow describes the appearances in Mexico by Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and Spanish concert dancer Tortóla Valencia, who helped motivate Mexico to express its own national identity through dance. He discusses the work of muralists and other visual artists in tandem with Mexico’s theatrical dance world, including Diego Rivera’s collaborations with ballet composer Carlos Chávez; Carlos Mérida’s leadership of the National School of Dance; José Clemente Orozco’s involvement in the creation of the Ballet de la Ciudad de México; and Miguel Covarrubias, who led the “golden age” of Mexican modern dance. Snow draws from a rich trove of historical newspaper accounts and other contemporary documents to show how these collaborations produced an image of modern Mexico that would prove popular both locally and internationally and continues to endure today.

Crafting Mexico

Author : Rick A. López
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391732
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Crafting Mexico written by Rick A. López and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Mexico’s revolution of 1910–1920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the country’s diverse populace. Their efforts resulted in an “ethnicized” interpretation of Mexicanness that intentionally incorporated elements of folk and indigenous culture. In this rich history, Rick A. López explains how thinkers and artists, including the anthropologist Manuel Gamio, the composer Carlos Chávez, the educator Moisés Sáenz, the painter Diego Rivera, and many less-known figures, formulated and promoted a notion of nationhood in which previously denigrated vernacular arts—dance, music, and handicrafts such as textiles, basketry, ceramics, wooden toys, and ritual masks—came to be seen as symbolic of Mexico’s modernity and national distinctiveness. López examines how the nationalist project intersected with transnational intellectual and artistic currents, as well as how it was adapted in rural communities. He provides an in-depth account of artisanal practices in the village of Olinalá, located in the mountainous southern state of Guerrero. Since the 1920s, Olinalá has been renowned for its lacquered boxes and gourds, which have been considered to be among the “most Mexican” of the nation’s arts. Crafting Mexico illuminates the role of cultural politics and visual production in Mexico’s transformation from a regionally and culturally fragmented country into a modern nation-state with an inclusive and compelling national identity.

Beyond the Turnstile

Author : Selma Holo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780759112216
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Turnstile written by Selma Holo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook of values will help museums of every kind and size articulate their value to their community at a time when economic woes cause even supporters to question their importance.

Top 10 Mexico City

Author : DK Eyewitness
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756694566
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Top 10 Mexico City written by DK Eyewitness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Mexico City will lead you straight to the very best the city has to offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the best nightspots, this guide and its pull-out map is the perfect pocket-sized companion. The guide is divided by area with restaurant reviews for each, as well as recommendations for hotels, bars and places to shop. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists, from the Top 10 museums to the Top 10 events and festivals. There's even a list of the Top 10 things to avoid. You'll find the insider knowledge you need to explore this city with DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Mexico City and its pull-out map.

The Mobility of Modernism

Author : Harper Montgomery
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477312560
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Mobility of Modernism written by Harper Montgomery and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on the values of modernism to question the cultural authority of Europe. Modernism gave them a tool for coping with the mobility of their circumstances, as well as the inspiration for works that questioned the very concepts of the artist and the artwork and opened the realm of art to untrained and self-taught artists, artisans, and women. Writing about the modernist works in newspapers and magazines, critics provided a new vocabulary with which to interpret and assign value to the expanding sets of abstracted forms produced by these artists, whose lives were shaped by mobility. The Mobility of Modernism examines modernist artworks and criticism that circulated among a network of cities, including Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Havana, and Lima. Harper Montgomery maps the dialogues and relationships among critics who published in avant-gardist magazines such as Amauta and Revista de Avance and artists such as Carlos Mérida, Xul Solar, and Emilio Pettoruti, among others, who championed esoteric forms of abstraction. She makes a convincing case that, for these artists and critics, modernism became an anticolonial stance which raised issues that are still vital today—the tensions between the local and the global, the ability of artists to speak for blighted or unincorporated people, and, above all, how advanced art and its champions can enact a politics of opposition.

Fodor's Spain 2010

Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400008646
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fodor's Spain 2010 written by Fodor's and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a region-by-region guide to Spain including information on accommodations, shopping, and points of interest

Fodor's Spain 2011

Author : Caroline Trefler
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400004810
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fodor's Spain 2011 written by Caroline Trefler and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a region-by-region guide to Spain including information on accommodations, shopping, and points of interest

Casa Mañana

Author : Susan Danly
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826328052
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Casa Mañana written by Susan Danly and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a detailed look at the political and artistic climate in Mexican-American relations through an examination of the folk art collection amassed by Dwight and Elizabeth Morrow when he was U.S. ambassador to Mexico in the late 1920s.

Top 10 Mexico City

Author : Nancy Mikula
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756683181
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Top 10 Mexico City written by Nancy Mikula and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, The DK Top 10 Guides use exciting photography and excellent cartography to provide a reliable and useful travel guide. Dozens of Top 10 lists provide vital information on each destination, as well as insider tips, from avoiding the crowds to finding out the freebies, The DK Top 10 Guides take the work out of planning any trip.

Miniature Crafts and Their Makers

Author : Katrin Flechsig
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816550077
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Miniature Crafts and Their Makers written by Katrin Flechsig and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture a throng of tiny devils and angels, or a marching band so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. In a Mixtec town in the Mexican state of Puebla, craftspeople have been weaving palm since before the Spanish Conquest, but over the past forty years that art has become more finely tuned and has won national acceptance in a market nostalgic for an authentic Indian past. In this book, Katrin Flechsig offers the first in-depth ethnographic and historical examination of the miniature palm craft industry, taking readers behind the scenes of craft production in order to explain how and why these folk arts have undergone miniaturization over the past several decades. In describing this "Lilliputization of Mexico," she discusses the appeal of miniaturization, revealing how such factors as tourism and the construction of national identity have contributed to an ongoing demand for the tiny creations. She also contrasts the playfulness of the crafts with the often harsh economic and political realities of life in the community. Flechsig places the crafts of Chigmecatitlán within the contexts of manufacturing, local history, religion, design and technique, and selling. She tells how innovation is introduced into the craft, such as through the modification of foreign designs in response to market demands. She also offers insights into capitalist penetration of folk traditions, the marketing of folk arts, and economic changes in modern Mexico. And despite the fact that the designations "folk" and "Indian" help create a romantic fiction surrounding the craft, Flechsig dispels common misperceptions of the simplicity of this folk art by revealing the complexities involved in its creation. More than thirty illustrations depict not only finished miniatures but also the artists and their milieu. Today miniatures serve not only the tourist market; middle-class Mexicans also collect miniatures to such an extent that it has been termed a national pastime. Flechsig’s work opens up this miniature world and shows us the extent to which it has become a lasting and important facet of contemporary Mexican culture.

Fodor's Mexico 2010

Author : Heidi Johansen
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400008360
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fodor's Mexico 2010 written by Heidi Johansen and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on Mexican history and culture, and shares advice on sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment

Mexican Crafts and Craftspeople

Author : Marian Harvey
Publisher : Associated University Presses
ISBN 13 : 9780879825126
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Mexican Crafts and Craftspeople written by Marian Harvey and published by Associated University Presses. This book was released on 1987 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in Mexican Folk Art

Author : Eli Bartra
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783160748
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Women in Mexican Folk Art written by Eli Bartra and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to engender Mexican folk art and locate women at its centre by studying the processes of creation, distribution, and consumption, as well as examining iconographic aspects, and elements of class and ethnicity, from the perspective of gender. The author will demonstrate that the topic provides unique insights into Mexican culture, and has enormous relevance within and without the country, given the fact that much folk art is made for the United States and Europe, either in terms of the tourists who buy it on coming to Mexico, or that which is exported.