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One of the most enduring lessons of the Mexican muralist movement for American artists active between the wars was the use of the mural as a political tool. Murals by Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siquieros elevated the cultural status of Mexico's indigenous people by presenting this previously invisible segment of the population in heroic scale. A group of African-American modernists -- including Charles Alston, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff -- were so struck by the example of the muralists that they traveled to Mexico to view their work and study with the masters. This book provides a thorough examination of the ways in which the Mexican muralist movement influenced the African-American artists of this period. Included are drawings, studies for murals, paintings, and sculpture by these African-American artists, as well as by the Mexican muralists.

In the Spirit of Resistance =En El Espiritu De LA Resistencia: African-American Modernists and the Mexican Muralist School = Los Modernistas Africanoamericanos Y LA Escuela Muralista Mexicana: Search Results