Art from the Mayans to Disney
Title | Art from the Mayans to Disney PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Charlot |
Publisher | Books for Libraries |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Art |
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Mexican Art and the Academy of San Carlos, 1785-1915
Title | Mexican Art and the Academy of San Carlos, 1785-1915 PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Charlot |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2014-07-03 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0292771525 |
Was the Royal Academy of San Carlos, founded in 1785 by the King of Spain, beneficial or detrimental to the development of a valid, living art in Mexico? The answer lies in the archives of the school, but nobody thought about constructing an aesthetic history from them until Jean Charlot accidentally discovered their extent and interest while searching for other material. In this straightforward, documented account he presents not merely opinions and criticism but evidence, including curricula and contemporary drawings by students and teachers. Since Pre-Conquest art there have been, it is usually assumed, two periods in Mexican art: the Colonial and the Modern. Between these peaks lies the dark Academy-dominated hiatus called Neo-Classicism, an episode that this treatise makes the first attempt to under-stand. The academic canons imported from Europe during this period were undeniably wrong for the indigenous people, and especially wrong at a time when a revolutionary Mexico was struggling for its own identity. But instead of throwing out this strange episode as foreign and imitative, it now becomes possible to see it as a period of acculturation through which the Mexican spirit emerged. Aside from its interest as aesthetic history, this book makes an important contribution to the social history of Mexico. Some provocative ideas emerge: the interrelations between cultural and political attitudes, the historical impact of events and personalities on ideology. In the seesaw of political and financial fortunes, the worst moments of confusion were often the most pregnant artistically, with mexicanidad rising inevitably when official guidance weakened. As social history this account constitutes an interesting parallel to similar cultural experiences in the United States and in other countries of the Americas. Charlot presents this material without special pleading, but not without appraisal. He writes: “... in the periods when the Academy was most strictly run along academic lines, it helped the young, by contrast, to realize the meaning of freedom. When the school was manned by men blind to the Mexican tradition, and sensitive only to European values, their stubborn stand became a most healthy invitation to artistic revolution.”
Idols Behind Altars
Title | Idols Behind Altars PDF eBook |
Author | Anita Brenner |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2012-10-23 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0486145751 |
Critical study ranges from pre-Columbian times through the 20th century to explore Mexico's intrinsic association between art and religion; the role of iconography in Mexican art; and the return to native values. Unabridged reprint of the classic 1929 edition. 118 black-and-white illustrations.
The Mexican Mural Renaissance, 1920-1925
Title | The Mexican Mural Renaissance, 1920-1925 PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Charlot |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Mural painting and decoration, Mexican |
ISBN |
An Artist on Art
Title | An Artist on Art PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Charlot |
Publisher | |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The Artist in New York
Title | The Artist in New York PDF eBook |
Author | José Clemente Orozco |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2011-01-20 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0292791496 |
In his Foreword to this edition, Jean Charlot says: "An unusual feature of Orozco's letters is the great deal that he has to say about art. That one artist writing to another would emphasize art as his subject seems normal enough to the American reader. Yet, within the context of the Mexico of those days, the fact remains exceptional. The patria Orozco was leaving behind had, even from the point of view of its artists, many cares more pressing than art." The letters and unpublished writings of Orozco from this period (1925-1929) describe an important period of transition in the artist's life, from his departure from Mexico, almost as a defeated man, to the period just before he received the great mural commissions—Pomona, The New School for Social Research in New York, Dartmouth—that were to bring him lasting international fame.
Jean Charlot
Title | Jean Charlot PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Charlot |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Painting, Modern |
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