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Mano de obra : oficios en la gráfica mexicana, siglos XX y XXI / [textos y fotografías : Raúl Cano Monroy [and others]].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Red de museos.
- Red de museos
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Prints, Mexican--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Prints, Mexican.
- Art and society--Mexico--History--Exhibitions.
- Art and society.
- Working class--Mexico--Pictorial works.
- Working class.
- Occupations--Mexico--Pictorial works.
- Occupations.
- Physical Description:
- 138 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
- Edition:
- Primera edición.
- Other Title:
- Oficios en la gráfica mexicana, siglos XX y XXI
- Place of Publication:
- Ciudad de México : Secretaría de Cultura : INBAL : Talamontes, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish.
- Summary:
- This exhibition seeks to show a poorly studied theme of Mexican graphics: the representation of existing trades in our country, from the post-revolutionary period to the 1960s of the 20th century, as well as the beginning of the 21st century. The museum has as backbone the collection of the Museo Nacional de la Estampa, whose works -many exhibited for the first time- alternate with those of different contemporary artists. Resonating with the collective exhibition of 1955, organized by the National Front of Plastic Arts, where artists from across the country lived together with young or passionate artists, many of the participating artists had never been included in collective exhibitions of Mexican graphics, and less so together with renowned artists such as Leopoldo Méndez, Raúl Anguiano, Celia Calderón, José Chávez Morado, Fanny Rabel, Mariano Paredes, among others. All of them include more than 150 artists, of different styles and ideologies, which allows us to show the richness that exists both in the modern and contemporary periods. The representation of economic activities in the current Mexican territory has been a constant in art. The presence of this theme in Mexican graphic art in the first half of the 20th century is organically linked to the ideals of the revolutionary artists-belonging to the Mexican School of Painting and to groups such as the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists (LEAR), the Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP), the Mexican Society of Engravers, and the Frente Nacional de Artes Plásticas (FNAP)-who fought, through their works, to build a new and better social reality, once the armed period of the Revolution was over. The active representation of the Mexican people, both in the countryside and in the city, allowed artists and their spectators to learn about the different realities of the country and, at the same time, to recognize and praise the characters who were the de facto builders of the new nation: workers and peasants, along with teachers, artisans, merchants, and, of course, artists. Raúl Cano and Karen Juárez, curators of Mano de obra. Oficios en lagráfica mexicana, siglo XX y XXI, show snapshots of two moments in the history of Mexico: the first half of the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st. The dialogue between both periods makes visible the permanence of some trades, their transformation and the emergence of new occupations, including those that emerged during the confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic that are an example of the resilience of the Mexican people in the face of crises. They also show the current technical exploration and the search for different perspectives of the new generations of artists.
- Contents:
- Presentaciones
- Antecedentes a la exposición "Mano de obra": breve cronología de los oficios en la gráfica mexicana posrevolucionaria / Raúl Cano
- La gráfica contemporánea en la exposición Mano de obra. Oficios en la gráfica mexicana, siglos XX y XXI / Karen Juárez
- Diferencias / Juan Rafael Coronel
- Catálogo de obra.
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from 16 December 2021 to 19 June 2022 at the Museo Nacional de la Estampa in Mexico City.
- "Red de museos" --Title Page.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786076057650
- 6076057653
- OCLC:
- 1519508137
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