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SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POETIC CAN BECOME POLITICAL AND SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POLITICAL CAN BECOME POETIC

2007 | Video installation with various components

provided by the Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art Deaccession Fund and the Michael and ... SOMETHING POETIC CAN BECOME POLITICAL AND SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POLITICAL CAN BECOME POETIC Portfolio ... refers to the 1949 armistice lines established between Israel and its neighbors—Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, ...

Lázaro Cárdenas and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39 (Lázaro Cárdenas y la guerra de España. 1936-39)

1947 | Linocut

Mexico’s leftist arts and labor organizations were among those who rallied on the side of the Spanish ... between Cárdenas’s reforms in support of the working classes—and by extension the Republican forces—and ... his intervention in foreign politics and the battle against fascism. For more ...

Philosophy and Christian Art

1868 | Oil on canvas

Full Title: Philosophy and Christian Art Portfolio Orig Lang Title: Portfolio Translated Title: ... and Christian Art. The model or the type of the old man also appears in Huntington’s Sowing the Word, ... new country. Such idealizations ignored the mounting political and social differences that threatened ...

Woman's Dress (Bodice and Skirt)

1902-1903 | Bodice: silk plain weave (taffeta) with supplementary warp patterning, wool plain weave (broadcloth), lace, and silk velvet trim with metal and faux pearl buttons; Skirt: silk plain weave (taffeta) with supplementary warp patterning, wool lace, silk satin, and silk plain weave with supplementary warp float pattering

States into a modern industrialized society and an international political power. By 1920 more than half ... many farmers and African Americans from rural areas. In addition, between 1900 and 1920, 14.5 million ... tripled between 1900 and 1910; its unplanned urban sprawl and dizzying speed were captured in the zany ...

Construction Workers (Peones de la construcción)

1947 | Linocut

the parallels between man and machine. The overall result is a bold and dramatic portrayal of the ... Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany, 2022, pp. 80–81. About The ... Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los ...

Ten Tragic Days of Victoriano Huerta (Decena trágica de Victoriano Huerta)

1937 | Lithograph

Bastar illustrates the month of February. Between February 9 and 13, 1913, Mexico City was engulfed in ... Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles ... Subclassification: lithographs Exhibition History: Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany ...

Lumber Workers

1946 | Lithograph

of Campeche sawing mahogany logs. The striking similarities between the central figure’s legs and the ... Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany, 2022 (for more information see ... Entry: Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from ...

Doubles and Couples- Version Turin

2008 | Mixed media installation

nonetheless replete with political and autobiographical references. Having studied in Frankfurt in the late ... allow for the interchange between public and private, and Yang uses the shades, often broken or ... Doubles and Couples lies in its ability to shift effortlessly between personal and social realms. ...

Broadway and Forty-Second Street, New York

1916 | Oil on canvas

industrialized society and an international political power. By 1920 more than half of the country’s population ... Americans from rural areas. In addition, between 1900 and 1920, 14.5 million immigrants from Europe, Russia, ... fine arts. In Philadelphia and New York, a group of artists centered ...

The National Arts Club, New York

1904 | Bronze medal

areas. In addition, between 1900 and 1920, 14.5 million immigrants from Europe, Russia, Mexico, and Asia ... West Coast cities were affected—the population of Los Angeles tripled between 1900 and 1910; its ... the streets of the city. Art reflected these changing social and economic ...

Let’s Remove the Blinders!; Literacy Campaign (¡Quitemos la venda!; Campaña de alfabetización)

1947 | Linocut

peers to read and write, and legally obligated all those between the ages of six and forty who were ... Bibliographic Entry: Kaplan, Rachel, and Erin Sullivan Maynes. Pressing Politics: Revolutionary ... Graphics from Mexico and Germany. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022. ...

Portrait of Mrs. Edward L. Davis and Her Son, Livingston Davis

1890 | Oil on canvas

a polite manner, through the tender grasp of hands and physical proximity The boy shyly leans toward his ... of Carolus-Duran on close attention to values and the example of Spanish art, Sargent limited his ... affection and warmth between mother and son. Surrounding the double portrait is an ornate frame by Stanford ...

Rest During Flight Into Egypt

2016 | Oil on canvas

and abstraction, often referencing art history and/or politics in a style that recalls gestural ... paintings by Chaim Soutine, Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, and Lynn Foulkes. While attending art school in ... a palette knife. Ghenie’s works evoke various social and political upheavals in Europe; Rest during ...

Mantle

1450-1532 or colonial period (1532-1600) | Cotton plain weave discontinuous warp and weft

world, were an integral part of all tribute, taxation, religion, political ceremony, birth, marriage, and ... dualism, reciprocity, and complementarity between cosmic forces and the natural realm. Woven in a highly ... contrasting but complementary opposites, and balance was attained by the interchange between the two. ...

Lili'uokalani

1875 | Albumen silver print

forward a new constitution, American landowners staged a coup. Between 1893 and 1898, Lili‘uokalani and ... political parties, in the press, and with petitions. They also sent delegations to Washington, DC. ... smuggle from house arrest. She and other Kānaka Maoli used song to resist cultural and political ...

The Naval Battle of Dannoura in the Reign of Antoku, Eightieth Emperor

1880 | Triptych; color woodblock print

1185 at Yashima and Dannoura, two port cities located along the strait between Honshū and Kyushū, ... theatre, and legend. Typically in Japanese pictorial art, and seen in Yoshitoshi's prints, action ... clash between two rival clans, the Taira and the Minamoto. The war wrought incredible havoc upon the ...

Party People

2018 | Egg tempera on vellum

between bright colors and grayscale, and between the dimensionality of Sokhanvari’s photo-realism and the ... flatness of her invented patterns, places the work somewhere between the absurd and the tragic, between ... the politics of fashion and self-fashioning, Sokhanvari includes psychedelic patterns that hark back ...

Untitled (#6), from the series Secret of Words

2002 | Chromogenic print

best known contemporary artists and his art was shaped in part by the circumstances of his early life. ... and went on to study photography at the University of Fine Arts, Tehran. Since the late 1980s, he has ... between the present and the past. Perhaps because Tirafkan learned about loss at an early age, his work ...

Untitled (#7), from the series Secret of Words

2002 | Chromogenic print

contemporary artists and his art was shaped in part by the circumstances of his early life. Born in Iraq and ... emphasizes suffering and isolation rather than political commentary. This is especially true of his 2002 ... Houman M. Sarshar in honor of Nedjat and Homa Sarshar Artwork Accession Number: M.2013.17.2 Location: ...

Minamoto Yoshitsune, Governor of Iyo, Leaping across Eight Boats

May 5, 1879 | Triptych; color woodblock prints

a monumental clash between two rival clans, the Taira and the Minamoto. The war wrought incredible havoc upon ... theater, literature, and art since that time. Although physical force on the battlefield was ... politics and intricate strategy became indispensable to fighting a successful war. The idea of loyalty, ...