An Unauthorized History of Post-Mexican School Muralism

Authors

Bruce Campbell, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2012

Disciplines

Art and Design | Arts and Humanities | History | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Latin American History | Latin American Languages and Societies

Abstract

“This chapter takes a historically and politically grounded view of Mexican mural art in the post-Mexican School era. The more conventional view of mural art, which focuses on the individual image, tends to obscure much late twentieth-century Mexican mural production and fails to recognize the aesthetic value of murals not authorized by the Mexican state. The official view of Mexican muralism combines a conventional view of art with the conservatism of the post-Revolutionary Mexican state. A focus on the practical entanglements of mural art in Mexico with public space, social communication, and political conflict brings into view a broader and more diverse field of mural production.”

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Recommended Citation

Campbell, Bruce. "An Unauthorized History of Post-Mexican School Muralism." In Mexican Muralism: A Critical History, edited by Alejandro Anreus, Leonard Folgarait, and Robin Adèle Greeley, 263-282. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.