ARTH232
Art and
Social Reality
Required readings
á Ades:
151-213
Important names & terms
á Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848
á
Mexican
Revolution, 1910-1920: Francisco Madero (1873-1913), Pancho Villa
(1878-1923), Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), Venustiano Carranza (1850-1920),
Alvaro Obreg—n (1880-1928)
á Russian October Revolution (Bolshevik Revolution), 1917
á
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1922: Lenin
(1870-1924), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Leon Trotsky
(1879-1940, exiled in 1929)
á Social Realism (starts around 1850), Socialist Realism (starts in 1932), Indigenism
á
Mexican
Muralist Movement, c. 1920-1950
á
JosŽ
Vasconcelos (1881-1959, Mexican Minister of Education, 1920-24)
á
Taller de
Gr‡fica Popular, founded in 1937
á
Saturnino Herr‡n, Coatlicue,
1918, sketch for the mural project Our Gods at the Teatro Nacional,
Mexico City
á
Diego Rivera, Flower
Day, 1925 (Ades: 197)
á
Diego Rivera, Day of the Dead
– City Fiesta, 1923-4, fresco at the Ministry of Education,
Mexico City (Ades: 158)
á
Diego Rivera, Evening
dream on a Sunday afternoon in the Alameda, 1947, mural for the Hotel del
Prado, Mexico City
á
Diego Rivera, The
History of Mexico: From the Conquest to 1930, 1929-30, frescoes at the
Palacio Nacional, Mexico City (Ades: 172)
á
Diego Rivera, Man,
Controller of the Universe, 1934, fresco at the
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (Ades: 150)
á
JosŽ Clemente Orozco, Christ
Destroying his Cross, 1943 (Ades: 157)
á
JosŽ Clemente Orozco, The Trench,
1926-7, fresco at the National Preparatory School, Mexico City (Ades: 166)
á
David Alfaro Siqueiros, El
Coronelazo, 1945
á
David Alfaro Siqueiros,
New Democracy, 1944
á
Leopoldo MŽndez, Homage
to Posada, 1956 (Ades: 181)
á
Leopoldo MŽndez, The
Merry-go-round, nd (Ades: 185)
á
C‡ndido Portinari, Coffee,
1935 (Ades: 213)
á
C‡ndido Portinari, Emigrants
(Os retirantes), 1946
á
Oswaldo Guayasam’n, The
Strike, 1940 (Ades: 211)
