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Exhibition Review
The Avant-garde Networks of ‘Amauta’: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 451-453
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Reviewer:
Reynolds, Ann (Reynolds, Ann)
Subjects
art literature:
Amauta magazine
media:
Paintings / Photographs / Textiles
museums and institutions:
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, United States
places:
Argentina / Peru / Mexico
subjects:
Latin American art / Social history / Politics / Literature / Art in literature / Art literature / Archives / Manifestoes
subjects:
Mexican painting / Argentinian school / Peruvian School
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Avant-garde Networks of ‘Amauta’: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin 16th February–17th May | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Mayor of Chinchero, by José Sabogal. 1925. Oil on canvas, 169 by 109 cm. (Pinacoteca Municipal Ignacio Merino, Lima; exh. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin).
Attributed works:
24. Installation photograph of The Avantgarde Networks of Amauta: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s at the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, 2020.
Attributed works:
25. Mexican flag, by Lola Velásquez de Cueto. 1920s. Silk tapestry made with chain stitch, 42 by 150 cm. (Private collection, Lima;   Sucesi n Mireya Cueto; photograph of Lance Aaron; exh. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin).
Attributed works:
Opposite 23. Allegory to the farmers, by Carlos Quízpez As n. 1928. Oil on canvas, approx. 190 by 150 cm. (Universidad Nacional de Ingenier a, Lima; exh. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin).
Book Review
Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque. By Jonathan Brown et al.
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 879-880
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Villalpando, Cristóbal de
dates:
1650-1699 / 1700-1749 / 2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Palacio de Cultura Banamex, Mexico City, Mexico
places:
United States / New York / Mexico / Mexico City / Puebla (Mexico)
subjects:
Mexican painting / Colonial / Baroque / Altarpieces / Commissions / Christian iconography / Colonialism / Exhibition catalogues
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Moses and the brazen serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus, by Cristóbal de Villalpando. 1683. Canvas, 8.65 by 5.50 m. (Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, Puebla; courtesy Dirección General de Sitios y Monumentos del Patrimonio Cultural).
Exhibition Review
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
10/2018 | 1387 | 160
Pages: 862-863
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Reviewer:
Oliver, Sophie (Oliver, Sophie)
Subjects
art literature:
Breton, André
artists:
Kahlo, Frida / Rivera, Diego / Freund, Gisèle / Weston, Edward / Álvarez Bravo, Lola / Murray, Nickolas
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings / Photographs / Art objects / Costume / Jewellery
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
places:
Great Britain / London
subjects:
Mexican painting / Self-portraits / Surrealism / Politics / Popular culture / Capitalism / Communism / Nationalism / Dress
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. Self-portrait, by Frida Kahlo. 1948. Panel, 50 by 40 cm. (Private collection; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
20. Self-portrait on the border between Mexico and the United States of America, by Frida Kahlo. 1932. Oil on metal, 31 by 35 cm. (Modern Art International Foundation; courtesy María and Manuel Reyero; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
19. Cotton huipil with machine-embroidered chain stitch; printed cotton skirt with embroidery and holán (ruffle). (Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City; exh. Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Book Review
Picturing the Proletariat: Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908–1940. By John Lear
08/2018 | 1385 | 160
Pages: 706-707
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Reviewer:
Sullivan, Edward J. (Sullivan, Edward J.; S., E. J.)
Subjects
artists:
Posada, José Guadalupe / Rivera, Diego / Orozco, José Clemente / Charlot, Jean / Guerrero, Xavier / Leal, Fernando / Modotti, Tina / Alvarez Bravo, Manuel / Siqueiros, David Alfaro
dates:
1900-1949
media:
Paintings / Prints / Woodcuts / Photographs
places:
Mexico
subjects:
Mexican painting / Murals / Iconography / Working Class / Workers / Politics / Communism / Newspapers / Satire / Caricatures / Gender / Civil War (Spain:1936-1939)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
9. Detail of The worker’s struggle against monopolies, by Pablo O’Higgins. 1934. Fresco. (Mercado Abelardo Rodriguez, Mexico City; photograph John Lear).
Book Review
Painted in Mexico, 1700–1760: Pinxit Mexici. Edited by Ilona Katzew
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 607-608
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Reviewer:
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
Subjects
artists:
Juárez , Juan Rodríguez / Juárez, Nicolás Rodríguez / Magón, José Joaquín / Morlete Ruiz, Juan Patricio / Vallejo, Francisco Antonio / Ibarra, José de / Torres, Antonio de
dates:
1700-1799
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Palacio de Cultura Banamex, Mexico City, Mexico / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
patrons:
House of Bourbon
places:
Mexico / Mexico City / United States / Los Angeles / New York
subjects:
Mexican painting / Exhibition catalogues / Patronage / Style / Academies / Treatises / Jesuits / Globalism / Gender / Race / Politics / Iconography / Portraits / Self-portraits / Allegories / Caravaggism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. View of the Plaza Mayor of Mexico, by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz. 1770. Canvas, 96.8 by 151 cm. (National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta).
Exhibition Review
Rufino Tamayo. Washington
02/2018 | 1379 | 160
Pages: 154-155
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Reviewer:
Sullivan, Edward J. (Sullivan, Edward J.; S., E. J.)
Subjects
artists:
Tamayo, Rufino
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Paintings
museums and institutions:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, United States
places:
United States / Washington DC
subjects:
Mexican painting / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. New York seen from the terrace, by Rufino Tamayo. 1937. Canvas, 51.8 by 87.3 cm. (FEMSA Collection; © Tamayo Heirs; exh. Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
21. The family, by Rufino Tamayo. 1925. Canvas, 71.1 by 83.8 cm. (William and Christopher Brunder Collection; © Tamayo Heirs; exh. Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
22. Fire, by Rufino Tamayo. 1946. Canvas, 111.8 by 86.4 cm. (Collection of Mrs J. Todd Figi; © Tamayo Heirs; exh. Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington).
Article
The Emperor of Mexico’s screen: Maximilian I’s ‘biombo’ in Trieste
07/2017 | 1372 | 159
Pages: 536-543
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Author:
Morena, Francesco (Morena, Francesco)
Subjects
artists:
Villegas, Pedro de, act. 1700-1720
dates:
1710-1719
museums and institutions:
Museo Storico del Castello di Miramare, Trieste, Italy
patrons:
Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, Archduke of Austria,1832-1867
subjects:
Biographies / Screens (furniture) / Mexican / Mexican painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. The Castello di Miramare, Trieste, designed by Carl Junker. 1856-70
Attributed works:
21. The visit of the Viceroy Francisco Fernandez de la Cueva, Duke of Alburquerque and Marquess of Cuellar, and his wife to the Canal de la Viga and to the quarter of Ixtacalco, by Pedro de Villegas. 1706 (Museo Soumaya, Mexico City)
Western art unattributed:
17. Portrait of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, c.1864. Photograph (Library of Congress, Washington. Copy photograph by J. Malovich, Trieste. Original glass negative made by Mathew Brady Studio)
Western art unattributed:
19. Chinoiserie scenes, by an anonymous Mexican painter. c.1718 (Museo Storico del Castello di Miramare, Trieste)
Western art unattributed:
20. The Conquest of Mexico, by Pedro de Villegas. 1718. Reverse of Fig.19
Exhibition Review
Mexican modernism. Paris and Dallas; Philadelphia, Mexico City and Houston
03/2017 | 1368 | 159
Pages: 247-248
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Reviewer:
Sullivan, Edward J. (Sullivan, Edward J.; S., E. J.)
Subjects
artists:
Kahlo, Frida / Rivera, Diego / Orozco, José Clemente
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, United States / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States / Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico / Grand Palais, Paris, France / Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, United States
places:
United States / Paris / Philadelphia / Mexico / Mexico City / Houston / Dallas / France
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Mexican painting / Modernism
Illustrations
Attributed works:
78. Self-portrait on the border line between Mexico and the United States, by Frida Kahlo. 1932 (Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico City; exh. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City)
Attributed works:
79. Detail of Río Juchitán, by Diego Rivera. 1953-55 (Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, on loan from Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; exh. Grand Palais, Paris, and Dallas Museum of Art)
Attributed works:
80. Optic Parable, by Manuel Alvarez Bravo. 1931 (Philadelphia Museum of Art; exh. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City)
Book Review
Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820: From Conquest to Independence, L.E. Alcalá and J. Brown, eds.
12/2015 | 1353 | 157
Pages: 856
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Reviewer:
Cruz González, Cristina (Cruz González, Cristina)
Subjects
dates:
1550-1599 / 1600-1799 / 1810-1819
subjects:
Paintings / Latin American / Spanish Colonial / Art historiography
subjects:
Mexican School / Mexican painting
Exhibition Review
Missionary art of Northern New Spain. Tijuana
10/2010 | 1291 | 152
Pages: 702-703
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Reviewer:
Wilson, Timothy (Wilson, Timothy; W., T. H.; W., T.; Wilson, Timothy H.; Thw)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Centro Cultural, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
museums and institutions:
Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico / Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, United States
museums and institutions:
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, United States
museums and institutions:
Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
places:
Mexico City
places:
Puebla (Mexico) / Mexico / Oakland (United States) / San Antonio (United States) / United States
places:
Tijuana
print:
Missionary art
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Religious art / Spanish Colonial / Spanish Colonial School
subjects:
Mexican painting / Mexican sculpture
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Arts of the Missions of Northern New Spain, 1600–1821 | institution: Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso , institution: Centro Cultural , institution: Oakland Museum of California , institution: San Antonio Museum of Art
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
55. Mezquital Crucifixion. Anonymous artist working in New Spain. c.1585. Polychromed cornstalk paste, 160 by 140 by 50 cm. (Durango Cathedral; exh. Centro Cultural, Tijuana).
Western art unattributed:
56. St Francis of Assisi. Anonymous artist working in ?Spain. Seventeenth century. Carved, polychromed and gilded wood, 130 by 65 cm. (Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepoltzotlán; exh. Centro Cultural, Tijuana).
Western art unattributed:
57. The martyrdom of San Felipe de Jesús. Anonymous artist working in New Spain. c.1650. Canvas, 152.4 by 121.9 cm. (Museo Regional de Guadalupe; exh. Centro Cultural, Tijuana).
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