Mexico: A Landscape Revisited/Una Vision De Su Paisaje (English and Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0876636172 ISBN 13: 9780876636176

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1995

Synopsis

The dramatic landscape of Mexico has inspired generations of Mexican painters. In the art of the past, Mexican landscape held the secondary role of scenic backdrop for historic and religious themes. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, however, attitudes changed toward the landscape, and it became a venerated subject for painting.

The significance and recent resurgence of landscape painting in Mexico is examined here by contributors Esther Acevedo, independent curator, Mexico City, and Mary Schneider Enriquez, arts critic for Mexico, ARTnews Magazine.

Mexico: A Landscape Revisited additionally features biographies of the artists as well as a chronology highlighting important events in Mexican history and art. Lavishly illustrated with full-color images, this volume introduces a powerful visual vocabulary of form and color that is uniquely Mexican. Its in-depth look at Mexican landscape painting imparts a greater appreciation of the genre and brings the reader closer to the country and countryside that is its source and inspiration.

Los espectaculares paisajes de México han inspirado a generaciones de pintores mexicanos. En el arte del pasado, el paisaje mexicano ocupó el lugar secundario de fondo para los temas históricos y religiosos. A lo largo de los siglos XIX y XX, sin embargo, cambió la actitud frente al paisaje, que se convirtió en un sujeto venerado por los pintores.

La significación y el reciente resurgimiento de la pintura paisajística en México son examinados en esta obra por Esther Acevedo, curadora independiente de la ciudad de Mexico, y Mary Schneider Enriquez, crítica del arte de México para la revista ARTnews.

México: Una visión de su paisaje contiene asimismo biografías de los artistas y una cronología en la que se destacan los principales acontecimientos ocurridos en la historia y en el arte de México. Profusamente ilustrado con imágenes a todo color, este volumen introduce un poderoso vocabulario visual de formas y colores que es singularmente mexicano. Su profundo análisis de la pintura paisajística mexicana contribuye a una mejor apreciación de este género y acerca al lector al país y a la campiña que constituyen la fuente de su inspiración.

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish

From Library Journal:

This bilingual publication is both a catalog of a traveling exhibition and an examination of the emerging importance of landscape painting of-and in-Mexico. The early submergence of the Mexican identity under that of the European conquerors faded rapidly during the 18th century, and the unique quality of the Mexican face, both human and natural, became a source of wonder and pride. The text traces the evolution of aesthetic forms from pictographs through codexes and maps to scientific representations of places and people in the dominant genre of landscape painting. The impact of the European world is not minimized, but the authors stress the continuing strength of the essentially Mexican vision at the heart of this aesthetic journey. Full-color illustrations give a tantalizing glimpse of the richness of this vision, short biographies of the artists prove useful if strangely telegraphic in style, and an easy-to-follow time line of landscape and history is provided. This simple, straightforward book will appeal to the general reader, especially those served by libraries in the Southwest.
Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0876636172
• ISBN 13: 9780876636176
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128