Siqueiros: Landscape Painter
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Siqueiros David Alfaro
Siqueiros: Landscape Painter
List Price: Price: $31.88 You Save: $18.12 (36%) DescriptionThis essential monograph on the renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974) reveals this most political of artists as a master landscape painter--but a painter of landscapes rife with political content. During his lifetime Siqueiros produced 150 landscape paintings, dynamic visions of futuristic cities and allegories of environmental devastation charged with the emotional vehemence that has come to characterize his better-known public works. Siqueiros--one of the "Big Three" of Mexican muralism along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco--believed mural art should function as a community service, but it was through his easel painting that he evolved his extensive variety of techniques and styles; it was also at the easel that he experimented with new tools and materials, and with radical works such as these. David Alfaro Siqueiros: Landscape Painter is the first thorough treatment of the artist's adventures in this genre.
So Far from Heaven: David Alfaro Siqueiros' The March of Humanity and Mexican Revolutionary Politics (Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies)
 List Price: Price: $27.00 You Save: $3.00 (10%) DescriptionBetween 1964 and 1971, the Mexican mural painter David Alfaro Siqueiros produced The March of Humanity on Earth and Toward the Cosmos in Mexico City, his last major project and the largest mural in the world. This illustrated book mounts a careful study of the painting, which it sees as marking the end of the Mexican mural movement. The main purpose of the book is to place the mural into the social-historical context of the period of its production. Due to this approach, the mural is seen not only as a work of art, but also as a symbol and carrier of Mexican political ideology, especially as it concerns the government's attempts to continue presenting the Mexican Revolution of 1910 as the source and basis of contemporary and future social, political, and economic policy. Professor Folgarait's book provides a fascinating case-study highlighting the conflict of modernistic and naturalistic trends in art, and makes an important contribution to the study of Mexican art of the twentieth century and to the general topic of the relationship of art to politics.
Siqueiros. 13 Grabados. 13 Woodcuts
List Price: Price: $67.50 You Save: $12.50 (16%) DescriptionSiqueiros David Alfaro News
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Mexico City Art Museum for World's Richest Man which includes classical European works by artists like Rubens and Tintoretto (visitors are greeted in the lobby by a cast of Rodin's “The Thinker”); modern Mexican pieces by artists like Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros; and what the museum