Orozco's American epic: myth, history, and the melancholy of race

Epic, national narration, and counternarrative -- Mexico, U.S. antiempire, and the borders of identity -- Melancholy, race, and performance -- Idea, intention, and the melancholy art -- Summary of mural, chapters, and argument -- Orozco's melancholy dialectics -- The Rivera-Siqueiros debate ove...

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1. Verfasser: Coffey, Mary K. 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 2019
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Zusammenfassung:Epic, national narration, and counternarrative -- Mexico, U.S. antiempire, and the borders of identity -- Melancholy, race, and performance -- Idea, intention, and the melancholy art -- Summary of mural, chapters, and argument -- Orozco's melancholy dialectics -- The Rivera-Siqueiros debate over the mural form -- Rivera's material dialectics: history as discourse -- Siqueiros's cinematographic mural art: the visual politics of affect -- History as ruin: Orozco's poetic image -- The Benjamin interlude: allegory, melancholy, and the dialectics of history -- Orozco as critical philosopher: form and politics -- The epic as dialectical image -- Colonial melancholy and the myth of Quetzalcoatl -- Quetzalcoatl: the myth, the man, the prophecy -- The postrevolutionary Quetzalcoatl: Messianic politics and indigenism -- Orozco's Quetzalcoatl -- Rivera's Quetzalcoatl -- Reframing Quetzalcoatl: allegory and the irony of empire -- Time, history, and prophecy: Quetzalcoatl and weak Messianism -- American modernity and the play of mourning -- Cort's and the spanish conquest -- Rivera's cort's -- Orozco's cort's -- The conquest, the two Americas, and the thanatopolitics of race -- The machine and the two Americas: Orozco's version -- Rivera's vision of industry and Pan-American cooperation -- Death, sacrifice, and the melancholy of the American dream -- Cort's, Christ, and weak messianism -- Rivera's national palace: technology, progress, and Messianic redemption -- Orozco and the phantasmagoria of sovereignty -- 'Modern industrial man' and the melancholy of race in America -- The supplement -- Neither dartmouth man nor Emiliano Zapata -- The worker who reads -- Between mestizaje and minstrelsy -- Vestigial blackface, artistic freedom, and the poetics of plasmatics -- Disidentification and the melancholy of race in America -- 'Greening the epic: the 'hovey mural' -- The 'evil grandchildren of Orozco': Orozco Mexotica
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 361 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9781478003304
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