Acounter-history of the 1970s in Mexico = a contra-historia de los setenta en Mexico / Grupo Mira ; editorial coordination, Annabela Tournon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grupo Mira, Author.

Tournon, Annabela (19..-....)., Author.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Student movements--Mexico--Mexico City--History--20th century--Exhibitions.

Student movements.

Arts graphiques--Mexique--Histoire--20e siècle--Expositions.

Arts graphiques.

Art mexicain--20e siècle--Expositions.

Art mexicain.

Mouvements étudiants--Mexique--Mexico--Histoire--20e siècle--Expositions.

Mouvements étudiants.

Mexico.

Mexico--Mexico City.

Physical Description:

243 pages. : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm.

Place of Publication:

Museo Amparo : Fundacion Amparo Mexico, 2022.

Summary:

The work of four exhibitions organized in commemoration of 50 years since the events of the student movement of 1968, a watershed in the recent history of our country. The publication is a recount of the transformations in artistic practices through four specific cases. Graph of 68 recovers a body of images that accompanied marches and rallies: visual material that strengthened the voice of protest and that formed a new collective imaginary; Grupo Mira reveals the production and critical potential of this group and contributes to shaping the history of the seventies in Mexico; Salón Independiente shows contestatory and experimental projects through group organizations, and #NoMeCansaré explores some current practices of public art and social mobilization. As a whole, the exhibitions allow us to reflect on the cultural changes in Mexico at 50 years of this movement.

The book narrates the trajectory of a group of artists who worked between 1965 and 1982 in the underground of political activism under the name of Grupo Mira: Arnulfo Aquino, Melecio Galván, Eduardo Garduño, Rebeca Hidalgo, Silvia Paz Paredes and Jorge Pérez Vega. The members of Grupo Mira met at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. They worked together in the United States under the name Group 65, and later founded the Escuela Popular de Arte in Puebla, active between 1972 and 1974. Finally, between 1977 and 1982, they formed the Grupo Mira. This collective project consisted of rescuing a political art far from the stereotypes of committed art, in dialogue with the struggles and thinking of its time. The group produced art aimed at workers to the specialized public, using historical forms of public art such as muralism and political graphics, and at the same time the neo-avant-garde, conceptualism and institutional critique. The book comprises more than 500 documents and works from the personal collections of artists Arnulfo Aquino and Jorge Pérez Vega.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibitions "Powerful Images: The Graphics of 68" (September 1, 2018 - January 6, 2019), Grupo Mira: a counter history of the seventies in Mexico" (September 1, 2018 - January 6, 2019), "Art without guardianship: Salón Independiente in México, 1968-1971 (October 20, 2018 - April 7, 2019) / "#NoMeCansare: Estética y política en México 2012-2018" (November 10, 2018 - March 31, 3019) / MUAC - Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México."--Title page verso.

In Spanish and English.

accompagné d'une bibliographie en anglais et espagnol commentée.

ISBN:

9786079948306

6079948303

OCLC:

1346981510