Description: Orozco's American EpicMyth, History, and the Melancholy of Race Author(s): Mary K. Coffey Format: Paperback Publisher: Duke University Press, United States Imprint: Duke University Press ISBN-13: 9781478002987, 978-1478002987 Synopsis Between 1932 and 1934, Jos? Clemente Orozco painted the twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An artifact of Orozco's migration from Mexico to the United States, the Epic represents a turning point in his career, standing as the only fresco in which he explores both US-American and Mexican narratives of national history, progress, and identity. While his title invokes the heroic epic form, the mural indicts history as complicit in colonial violence. It 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. In Orozco's American Epic Mary K. Coffey places Orozco in the context of his contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and demonstrates the Epic's power as a melancholic critique of official indigenism, industrial progress, and Marxist messianism. In the process, Coffey finds within Orozco's work a call for justice that resonates with contemporary debates about race, immigration, borders, and nationality.
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Book Title: Orozco's American Epic
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Orozco's American Epic: Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: History
Item Height: 254 mm
Item Weight: 1066 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Mary K. Coffey
Item Width: 203 mm
Format: Paperback
