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... the Mexican mural movement (Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros) and points out connections with European avant-gardes. The chapter follows the mural movement’s increasingly original developments in Mexico and then concentrates on the more recent Nicaraguan public mural paintings...

... Mexican muralism made a significant and lasting impact on the art produced by African Americans associated with the New Negro movement of the interwar period. Like their Mexican counterparts, African-descended artists in the United States were seeking to create a class-conscious artistic vision...

... artistic foment, Lewis's engagement with the bold physicality of a Dan mask reveals the challenges that Black modernists of his generation faced when it came to choosing subject matter and employing formal strategies. modern sculpture drawing African art Mexican muralism made a significant...

... Black and Brown. Via murals and photographs, in both museum and street settings, artists developed allegorical imagery to demonstrate historic commonalities, interpersonal collaborations, and political possibilities. Attempts to find a visual commonality between ethnic Mexican and Black North Americans...

... This chapter traces how the circulation of intercultural images spoke to the changing demographics of Los Angeles between 1992 and 2008, producing new relationships and voicing new ideas about the seemingly discrete and separate categories of Mexican and Black. During this time, visual artists...

... in the century. Following the Mexican example, talented artists such as Walter Solón Romero (1927–99) and Miguel Alandia Pantoja (1914–75) worked with the new government, painting dramatic murals that depicted a history of popular struggle dating back to the time of the conquest and anticipating a future...