Architecture and Design of Latin America and the Caribbean

The Mexican mural movement represents one of the most powerful and significant achievements in public art during the twentieth century. This book follows the careers of the three most prominent artists of the movement, los tres Grandes - José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. With stunning color reproductions of all the major murals, both those in Mexico and in the United States (where all three artists worked in the 1930s), the book locates the paintings in their cultural background and explores the artists' achievements within the political framework of their homeland.

Explores the history of Mexico from the Aztecs, through the Spanish colonial period and into the modern era

Explores the large, three-dimensional human figures of West Mexican ceramic sculpture found in ancient tombs in western Mexico. Full text available from the Met Museum.

Adela Breton traveled extensively in Mexico between 1890 and 1910, She created a pictorial account of the Mexican countryside in the 1890s as well as detailed color records of murals at the ruins of Chichén Itzá and other aspects of the Pre-Columbian past. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the history of the plaza in Mexican cities, from the Mesoamerican concept of space and types of open spaces through Spanish colonial towns to the present day. Color photographs and plans. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines significant works of architecture in large cities and small towns in each state, from the earliest buildings in the urban core to the newest at the periphery. Burian concludes the book with a brief commentary on lessons learned and possible futures for the architectural culture of the region, as well as a comprehensive biographical listing of the architects practicing in Northern Mexico during the past two centuries. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Color photographs of the art and architecture of Spanish missions in Baja California. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the interplay between the great events of the Revolution and the lives of everyday people at the Hacienda San Miguel Acocotla, located near a remote village in Mexico. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

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Color photographs of art, decorative arts, and architecture. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

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Describes the development of cultural relations as well as the conditions in both countries that made it possible, including the early enthusiasm of American liberals and leftists for the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the rise of cultural nationalism in Mexico and the United States, and the admiration of American neo-romantics for "authentic" peoples and cultures such as might be found in Mexico. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the work of these two artists in their cultural context, examining the ways in which the artists participated in the national and artistic discourses of post-revolutionary Mexico. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines the ways artists, architects, filmmakers, photographers, and other producers of visual culture in Mexico, the United States, Europe, and beyond have mined Mayan history and imagery. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores Maya culture and costume in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

His reflections on the Maya culture emphasize survival and adaptation, while images of ancient sites, the churches of the Franciscan mission period, and the ruined haciendas of the henequen period serve as physical reminders of the enduring ways in which the Maya have shaped the landscape of Yucatán over millennia. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines the muralist movement, starting in the 1920s and strongly connected to the Mexican Revolution of the previous decade, from which such great artists as José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), and Diego Rivera (1886-1957) emerged. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. This book offers a new interpretation of modern architecture in the Mexican capital, showing close links between design, evolving understandings of national architectural history, folk art, and social reform. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Features portraits of traditional people of the Oaxacan hinterlands who continue to wrap themselves in the clothing that expresses their ancient, living culture. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores a plantation village called San Juan Bautista Tabi, which once stood at the heart of a vast sugar estate, and what it illuminates about hacienda social life. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores how technical knowledge, immaterial desires, and political agendas impact the production and consumption of visual and material culture across times and places. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Explores the ideas of space and place in the built environment of Mexico, particularly during the colonial and modern eras. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

A richly illustrated, bilingual book, this guide visits 20 villages in the Chiapas Highlands to showcase their stunning handwoven cloth while also providing an insider's look into their history, folklore, festivals, traditions, and daily lives. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Examines the trade and production of textiles in the Pacific region, extending from the tip of Northeast Asia to the other end of South America and Australia, and explores the role of textiles in linking up the economies across the Pacific before the 19th century as well as the role of textile manufacturing and trade in the early stage of industrialization for most of the developing Pacific economies after the 19th century. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).

Around 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imperial capitals of the Aztec Empire. This book offers analysis and historical context to argue that colonial economic, political, and social concerns affected both the content of the Tetzcocan pictorial histories and their archaizing pictorial form. Available through ProQuest Ebook Central (login required).