Orozco''s American Epic - Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race

Mary K. Coffey examines José Clemente Orozco's mural cycle Epic of American Civilization, which indicts history as complicit in colonial violence and questions the claims of Manifest Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project.

List of contents

List of Illustrations  ix
Preface  xv
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction  1
1. Orozco's Melancholy Dialectics  43
2. Colonial Melancholy and the Myth of Quetzalcoatl  79
3. American Modernity and the Play of Mourning  123
4. "Modern Industrial Man" and the Melancholy of Race in America  207
Conclusion  261
Notes  287
Bibliography  325
Index

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Mary K. Coffey

Summary

Mary K. Coffey examines José Clemente Orozco's mural cycle Epic of American Civilization, which indicts history as complicit in colonial violence and questions the claims of Manifest Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project.

Product details

• Authors: Mary K Coffey, Mary K. Coffey
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781478001782
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0178-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; einzelne Künstler, Künstlermonografien, Amerikanische Geschichte, Naher und Mittlerer Osten, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Art & Art Instruction, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico