ISBN: 9780300169133

A revolutionary look at the profound impact of Mexico and its culture on the development of American modernism In the years between the two world wars, the enormous vogue of "things … Más…

A revolutionary look at the profound impact of Mexico and its culture on the development of American modernism In the years between the two world wars, the enormous vogue of "things Mexican" reached its peak. Along with the popular appeal of its folkloric and pictorialist traditions, Mexican culture played a significant role in the formation of modernism in the United States. Mexico and American Modernism analyzes the complex social, intellectual, and artistic ramifications of interactions between avant-garde American artists and Mexico during this critical period.In this insightful book, Ellen G. Landau looks beyond the well-known European influences on modernism. Instead, she probes the lesser-known yet powerful connections to Mexico and Mexican art that can be seen in the work of four acclaimed mid-century American artists: Philip Guston (1913–1980), Robert Motherwell (1915–1991), Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), and Jackson Pollock (1912–1956). Landau details how these artists' relationships with the Mexican muralists, expatriate Surrealists, and leftist political activists of the 1930s and 1940s affected the direction of their art. Her analysis of this aesthetic cross-fertilization provides an important new framework for understanding the emergence of Abstract Expressionism and the New York School as a whole. Trade Books>Hardcover>Art,Design & Photography>Art Crit,Theory>Art Crit,Theory, Yale University Press Core >2<

2013, ISBN: 9780300169133

Buch, Hardcover, A revolutionary look at the profound impact of Mexico and its culture on the development of American modernism In the years between the two world wars, the enormous vog… Más…

Buch, Hardcover, A revolutionary look at the profound impact of Mexico and its culture on the development of American modernism In the years between the two world wars, the enormous vogue of "things Mexican" reached its peak. Along with the popular appeal of its folkloric and pictorialist traditions, Mexican culture played a significant role in the formation of modernism in the United States. Mexico and American Modernism analyzes the complex social, intellectual, and artistic ramifications of interactions between avant-garde American artists and Mexico during this critical period. In this insightful book, Ellen G. Landau looks beyond the well-known European influences on modernism. Instead, she probes the lesser-known yet powerful connections to Mexico and Mexican art that can be seen in the work of four acclaimed mid-century American artists: Philip Guston (1913?1980), Robert Motherwell (1915?1991), Isamu Noguchi (1904?1988), and Jackson Pollock (1912?1956). Landau details how these artists' relationships with the Mexican muralists, expatriate Surrealists, and leftist political activists of the 1930s and 1940s affected the direction of their art. Her analysis of this aesthetic cross-fertilization provides an important new framework for understanding the emergence of Abstract Expressionism and the New York School as a whole. [PU: Yale University Press], Seiten: 224, Yale University Press, 2013<

2013, ISBN: 0300169132

[EAN: 9780300169133], Neubuch, [PU: Yale UP], ART: MODERNIST DESIGN & BAUHAUS, Exploring the significant role of Mexico and Mexican art in the formation of modernism in the USA, Landau lo… Más…

[EAN: 9780300169133], Neubuch, [PU: Yale UP], ART: MODERNIST DESIGN & BAUHAUS, Exploring the significant role of Mexico and Mexican art in the formation of modernism in the USA, Landau looks in detail at the Mexican experiences of four major American artists: Isamu Noguchi, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell. The chapters on Noguchi and Guston focus on their social and political sympathies during the Depression era; on Pollock, Landau discusses his Mexican-related iconographic experiments in New York; and her study of Motherwell examines the influence of Surrealist expatriate circles., Books<