Victor M. Espinosa

Martin Ramirez

Framing His Life and Art

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring extensive, newly uncovered biographical information, Martà n Ramà rez is the definitive study of the life and critical reception of the Mexican migrant and psychiatric patient who became one of the twentieth centuryâ s finest artists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 324mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9781477307755
• ISBN-10: 1477307753
• Artikelnr.: 42524602

Autorenporträt

VÍCTOR M. ESPINOSA One of the foremost experts on Martín Ramírez and an authority on transnational migration and art, Espinosa holds a PhD in sociology from Northwestern University and currently teaches at the Ohio State University. He is the author of El dilema del retorno: Migración, género y pertenencia en un contexto transnacional.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Introducing Martín Ramírez: A Transnational Migrant Worker from Los Altos de Jalisco
2. "Disoriented in Mind": Ramírez's Involuntary Seclusion
3. Art inside a Total Institution
4. A Psychotic Artist or the Mexican Henri Rousseau?
5. Marketing and Constructing the Reputation of an Outsider Master
6. The Enigma of Martín Ramírez
Notes
Index