Orozco's American Epic : Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race /

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"Between 1932 and 1934, Jose Clemente Orozco painted the twenty-four panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An artifact of Orozco's migration from Mexico to the United States, the Epic represents a turning point in his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Coffey, Mary K., 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Orozco, Jose Clemente > 1883-1949
Orozco, Jose Clemente, > 1883-1949.
Orozco, Jose Clemente, > 1883-1949. > Epic of American civilization.
Orozco, Jose Clemente, > 1883-1949 > Criticism and interpretation.
Epic of American civilization (Orozco, Jose Clemente)
Ikonographie
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican.
ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Mural painting and decoration, Mexican > New Hampshire > Hanover.
New Hampshire > Hanover.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Epic, national narration, and counternarrative
  • Mexico, U.S. antiempire, and the borders of identity
  • Melancholy, race, and performance
  • Idea, intention, and the melancholy art
  • Summary of mural, chapters, and argument
  • Orozco's melancholy dialectics
  • The Rivera-Siqueiros debate over the mural form
  • Rivera's material dialectics: history as discourse
  • Siqueiros's cinematographic mural art: the visual politics of affect
  • History as ruin: Orozco's poetic image
  • The Benjamin interlude: allegory, melancholy, and the dialectics of history
  • Orozco as critical philosopher: form and politics
  • The epic as dialectical image
  • Colonial melancholy and the myth of Quetzalcoatl
  • Quetzalcoatl: the myth, the man, the prophecy
  • The postrevolutionary Quetzalcoatl: Messianic politics and indigenism
  • Orozco's Quetzalcoatl
  • Rivera's Quetzalcoatl
  • Reframing Quetzalcoatl: allegory and the irony of empire
  • Time, history, and prophecy: Quetzalcoatl and weak Messianism
  • American modernity and the play of mourning
  • Cortes and the Spanish conquest
  • Rivera's Cortes
  • Orozco's Cortés
  • The conquest, the two Americas, and the thanatopolitics of race
  • The machine and the two Americas: Orozco's version
  • Rivera's vision of industry and Pan-American cooperation
  • Death, sacrifice, and the melancholy of the American dream
  • Cortes, Christ, and weak messianism
  • Rivera's national palace: technology, progress, and Messianic redemption
  • Orozco and the phantasmagoria of sovereignty
  • 'Modern industrial man' and the melancholy of race in America
  • The supplement
  • Neither Dartmouth man nor Emiliano Zapata
  • The worker who reads
  • Between mestizaje and minstrelsy
  • Vestigial blackface, artistic freedom, and the poetics of plasmatics
  • Disidentification and the melancholy of race in America
  • 'Greening the Epic: the 'Hovey mural'
  • The 'evil grandchildren of Orozco': Orozco MEXotica.

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