Mary K Coffey

Orozco's American Epic

Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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