Art and Architecture in Mexico [Paperback]

This new interpretive history of Mexican art from the Spanish Conquest to the early decades of the twenty-first century is the most comprehensive introduction to the subject in fifty years. James Oles ranges widely across media and genres, offering new readings of painting, sculpture, architecture, prints, and photographs. He interprets major works by such famous artists as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, but also discusses less familiar figures in history and landscape painting, muralism, and conceptual art.Awinning survey for any Mexican art collection.?JamesOless welcome contribution to the estimable Thames & Hudson World of Artseries presents in a single volume a substantial survey of art and architecturein Mexico.One of the most important contemporary contributions to understanding Mexican art and architecture from the Spanish conquest to the present. Through key examplessome well know and canonical, others that are overlooked in traditional scholarshipit provides expression?for . . . complexities. . . . Essential.Oles proposes new readings of prints, photographs and more.A lucidat times, even poeticsummary of five hundred years of Mexican art. The illustrated works of art are well-chosen and beautifully integrated into Oless text. Indeed, it feels as if his words emanate from the art itself. Donna Pierce, Denver Art Museum