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Mexican Renaissance
Mexican Renaissance refers to the Mexican muralism movement between 1920 and 1950. The phrase was first used in ''Idols behind Altars'' by Anita Brenner, with Jean Charlot Louis Henri Jean Charlot (February 8, 1898 – March 20, 1979) was a French people, French-born United States, American Painting, painter and illustrator, active mainly in Mexico and the United States. Life Charlot was born in Paris. His father, .... Charlot also discussed it in his 1963 book, ''The Mexican Mural Renaissance'': References {{Reflist Mexican art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Brenner
Anita Brenner (born Hanna Brenner; 13 August 1905 – 1 December 1974) was a transnational Jewish scholar and intellectual, who wrote extensively in English about the art, culture, and history of Mexico. She was born in Mexico, raised and educated in the U.S., and returned to Mexico in the 1920s following the Mexican Revolution. She coined the term 'Mexican Renaissance', "to describe the cultural florescence hatemerged from the revolution." As a child of immigrants, Brenner's heritage caused her to experience both antisemitism and acceptance. Fleeing discrimination in Texas, she found mentors and colleagues among the European Jewish diaspora living in both Mexico and New York, but Mexico, not the US or Europe, held her loyalty and enduring interest. She was part of the post- Revolutionary art movement known for its indigenista ideology. Brenner earned a PhD in anthropology at Columbia University and her first book, ''Idols Behind Altars'' was the first book to document the ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Charlot
Louis Henri Jean Charlot (February 8, 1898 – March 20, 1979) was a French-born American painter and illustrator, active mainly in Mexico and the United States. Life Charlot was born in Paris. His father, Henri, owned an import-export business and was a Russian-born émigré, albeit one who supported the Bolshevik cause. His mother Anna was an artist. His mother's family originated from Mexico City; his grandfather was a French-Indian mestizo. His great-grandfather had immigrated to Mexico in the 1820s shortly after the country's independence from Spain, and married a woman who was half-Aztec. This was likely the source of a myth which developed around Charlot casting him as a descendant of Aztec royalty. From an early age Charlot was fascinated with the Mexican manuscripts and art in the collection of his great uncle Eugene, and by the pre-Columbian artefacts of a neighbor and family friend, Désiré Charnay, who was a well-known archaeologist. As a teenager he began learning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Albers
Patricia Albers (born December 1943) is an American anthropologist and art historian, who has written and edited anthropology books about Native Americans and has been a professor of anthropology at the University of Utah. She led and participated in events to discuss and show what life had been like for Native Americans. Her research included living on a Sioux reservation and she collected oral histories of Native Americans. Albers and Beatrice Medicine collaborated and edited the book ''The Hidden Half: Studies or Plains Indian Women'' to dispel stereotypes and document the lives of women who have lived on the Plains. Personal life Albers was born in December 1943. She was married to Steven McCormick Hall, with whom they had a daughter, Shannon. Steven Hall grew up and lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. Albers lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, from 1983 to 1998, when she and her husband moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Steven Hall died on March 1, 2011. Albers lived in Minneapolis until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution ( es, Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from approximately 1910 to 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mexican history". It resulted in the destruction of the Federal Army and its replacement by a revolutionary army, and the transformation of Mexican culture and government. The northern Constitutionalist faction prevailed on the battlefield and drafted the present-day Constitution of Mexico, which aimed to create a strong central government. Revolutionary generals held power from 1920 to 1940. The revolutionary conflict was primarily a civil war, but foreign powers, having important economic and strategic interests in Mexico, figured in the outcome of Mexico's power struggles. The United States played an especially significant role. Although the decades-long regime of President Porfirio Díaz (1876–1911) was increasingly unpopular, there was no foreboding in 1910 that a revoluti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
