Mexican modern painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection.

"Mexican Modern Painting gathers 80 key works by more than 40 Mexican artists of the early twentieth century--a period of immense creativity in the region, driven in part by the desire of its artists to forge an aesthetic identity that would define Mexico as a nation-state. The paintings highli...

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Corporate Authors: Phoenix Art Museum; San Diego Museum of Art.; Meadows Museum; Museo Colección Blaisten.
Published: Editorial RM Verlag,
Publisher Address: Barcelona :
Publication Dates: 2011.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "Mexican Modern Painting gathers 80 key works by more than 40 Mexican artists of the early twentieth century--a period of immense creativity in the region, driven in part by the desire of its artists to forge an aesthetic identity that would define Mexico as a nation-state. The paintings highlighted here, from the Andrés Blaisten Collection, were assembled over a period of 30 years of meticulous research and passionate commitment, and offer the most thorough overview of Mexican modernism to date. Featured artists include Raúl Anguiano, Emilio Baz Viaud, Rosario Cabrera, Celia Calderón, Ramón Cano Manilla, Julio Castellanos, Fernando Castillo, Jean Charlot, Jesús Guerrero Galván, Francisco Gutiérrez, Saturnino Herrán, María Izquierdo, Agustín Lazo, Amador Lugo, Carlos Mérida, Guillermo Meza, José Clemente Orozco, Alfonso X. Peña, Feliciano Peña, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Fermín Revueltas, Fernando Reyes, Diego Rivera, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Rufino Tamayo."--Amazon.
Item Description: "On view at the Phoenix Museum of Art from 2 July to 25 September 2011; at the San Diego Museum of Art from 5 November 2010 to 19 February 2011; and at the Meadows Museum 29 April to 12 August, 2012"--Title page verso.
Includes index.
Carrier Form: 196 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN: 9788415118145
8415118147
Index Number: ND255
CLC: J231(731)
Call Number: J231(731)/M611
Contents: Forwards -- Andrés Blaisten: vision of a collector -- Modern Mexican art: visions and revisions -- Artist's biographies.