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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Mexican Art"”.
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Mexican art exhibitions in New York as cultural diplomacy, 1928-1932
In the aftermath of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, the postrevolutionary state launched an innovative campaign that exported the country’s emerging art and culture, which glorified its indigenous roots. The strategy of expanding its nation-building project abroad helped remake its image and radically …
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Colores Mexicanos: The Mexican Art Song and Setting Mexican Texts to Music
In the Western art music tradition, we typically associate the art song genre with French, Italian, and German music traditions. However, since the rising of Miguel Ponce and his other, 20th-century contemporaries, the Mexican art song tradition has established its own, unique place and role within …
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Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature
<p>This dissertation examines the migration of African Americans from the U.S. to Mexico; however, these paths extend well beyond the North American continent and intersect with a much larger migration: the African Diaspora. The journeys of Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Willard Motley, and …
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La Cofradía de Artes y Artesanos Hispánicos: 1978 to 1983 Redefining Tradition in the New Mexican Art Market
<p><strong>La Cofradía de Artes y Artesanos Hispánicos: Redefining Tradition in the New Mexican Art Market. May 2019. </strong></p> <p>This master’s thesis explores the 1978 founding, existence, dissolve, and the legacy of the Santa Fe, New Mexican artist exhibition group, La Cofradía de Artes y …
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Notions of Universality and Difference: Nineteenth-Century Mexican Costumbrismo
<p>Traditionally in the history of Mexican art, the nineteenth century is overlooked and generally categorized as transitional and inconsequential. As a result of political and economic instability, the arts of the nineteenth century have been considered secondary in comparison with the production …
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Routes and Networks of Mexican Abstraction Across the Americas (1958-1970)
… in Mexico City, exercised by a collective of artists driven by collaboration, intermediality, and experimentation, as an alternative to Muralism. In reevaluating the 1960s generation of artists, historically assessed by their rejection of social realism, this project highlights their evolving …
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Project Management Plan to Digitize the National Museum of Mexican Art's Collection
… plan to streamline the National Museum of Mexican Art's (NMMA) digitization process in order to publish the permanent collection online. The goals of digitizing the collection are increased access, audience expansion, education, and preservation. The target audiences are Mexican art and …
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Internal Locus of Control and Retablos: The Application of Art Therapy with HIV Positive Gay Men
… a miracle, or to make a wish. This traditional Mexican art form is rich with history and possibilities for healing. This thesis examines the history of the Retablo, and how it can be used with HIV positive Gay Latino men to foster greater sense of internal locus of control and increased quality …
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The Colonizers and Their Colonized
… whom they colonized for centuries, as applied to Mexican history. I have chosen some visual, cinematic, and literary representations of indigenous and other dispossessed peoples from both colonial and post-colonial Mexico in order to gain some insights into the vision of the powerless, (the …
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The evolution of the private art museum in Mexico
… funded exhibition spaces for contemporary art in Mexico. Driving this development is a new generation of art collectors and my research project is concerned with how collector-led models of patronage have influenced the recognition, impact and public display of contemporary art in Mexico. …
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Mexican arts and crafts since the conquest of Cortes
… Mexico should familiarize himself with its arts and crafts, for it has been truly said that "art is the expression of life,"<sup>1</sup> and the whole Mexican civilization is inextricably interwoven with its arts.</p>It is the purpose of this thesis, not to exhaust the subject treated, but …
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Building a Continent: The Idea of Latin American Architecture in the Early Postwar
In January 1943, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened Brazil Builds. This exhibition has been widely credited as initiating the international appraisal and celebration of Latin America's modern architecture. Responsive to the war context and to the museum's engagement with the Office of …
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Mexican Technoscientific Arts, 2000-2015: Art and Science, Machine Inventions, and Political Ecologies
<p>In the last decades, several artists have engaged directly with emerging digital technologies and science, the so-called new media arts. For the past fifteen or twenty years, such practices have experienced a paradigmatic transformation in Mexico, particularly in the capital. They have shifted …