Coffey Orozco's American Epic

Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0330-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Mary K. Coffey examines José Clemente Orozco's mural cycle Epic of American Civilization, which indicts history as complicit in colonial violence and questions the claims of Manifest Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coffey, Mary K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction 1
1. Orozco's Melancholy Dialectics 43
2. Colonial Melancholy and the Myth of Quetzalcoatl 79
3. American Modernity and the Play of Mourning 123
4. "Modern Industrial Man" and the Melancholy of Race in America 207
Conclusion 261
Notes 287
Bibliography 325
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mary K. Coffey is Associate Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College. She is the author of How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals, Museums, and the Mexican State, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Modern Art in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: An Introduction to Global Modernisms.