Mexican Art Exhibition
Posted February 12, 2011
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Piano: Greatest Hits $19.75 … |
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In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States $37.80 Filled with a wide array of illustrations, this book offers a fresh perspective on surrealism as it spotlights the important role that North American women artists played in the movement. The surrealist movement in art is most often identified with male artists, many of whom objectified women in their paintings, casting them as sexual or symbolic ideals. Conversely, the female artists of the movem… |
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Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art $21.90 In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art’s second monographic exhibition, which set new attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the show’s opening and gave him on-site studio space. There he produced five “portable murals” –large blocks of frescoed plaster, slaked lime and wood that feature bold images drawn from Mex… |
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A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove (Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography) $31.50 Lonesome Dove–Larry McMurtry’s epic tale of two aging Texas Rangers who drive a herd of stolen cattle 2,500 miles from the Rio Grande to Montana to found the first ranch there–captured the public imagination and has never let it go. The novel, published in 1985, was a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. More than two decades after publication, it still sells tens o… |