Mary K Coffey

Broschiertes Buch

Orozco's American Epic

Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 1043g
• ISBN-13: 9781478002987
• ISBN-10: 1478002980
• Artikelnr.: 55496864