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Possible Research Topics

1) Any work by “Los Tres Grandes” and the Mexican Mural Renaissance and its influences
2) Any of the films we view this term and related issues
3) Contemporary mural art and other forms of public art
4) Performance art / Guillermo Gómez Peña and Orozco Mexotica
5) The work and/or life of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
6) The WPA and the Federal Theatre Project/ Writers Project / Arts Project
7) Any related socio-political factors in the production and promotion of the Arts, specifically in relation to public art

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Use these resources to find images, articles, and books for your research!

  • Oxford Latin American History Research Encyclopedia
    Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History provides articles on a wide range of topics. A great place to gain conceptual grounding and start one's research.
  • HAPI online This link opens in a new window
    The Hispanic American Periodicals Index, or HAPI, is a source for scholarship about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States, with coverage from 1970 to the present. It contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Many articles are available in full-text, via the fee-based document delivery service.
  • HLAS online: handbook of Latin American studies This link opens in a new window
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    Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.
  • Oxford art online
    A database of art terminology, encyclopedic entries on artists and works of art, and images.
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    Provides access to Grove art online, formerly called: Grove dictionary of art; The Oxford companion to western art; The concise Oxford dictionary of art terms; Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.
  • MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
    The most comprehensive index of scholarship in literature, language, folklore, film, new media, and rhetoric and composition. Covers articles in periodicals, books, and book chapters. Does not index book reviews.
  • Vida Americana
    Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 was an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art. This website offers images, essays, and other materials about the exhibit.

Ebooks on murals and street art

  • Cover ArtMexican Muralist, International Marxist by Curtis Swope
    ISBN: 1526172666
    Publication Date: 2024
    This book interprets the later murals of the Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros in light of his Marxist internationalism.
  • Cover ArtA Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art by Alejandro Anreus (Editor); Robin Ad¿le Greeley (Editor); Megan A. Sullivan (Editor)
    ISBN: 9781118475416
    Publication Date: 2021-11-09
    In-depth scholarship on the central artists, movements, and themes of Latin American art, from the Mexican revolution to the present.
  • Conversations with Diego Rivera by Alfredo Cardona Peña (Translator); Alvaro Cardona-Hine (Translator)
    Call Number: Sherman ND259.R5 A35 2018
    ISBN: 9781613320297
    Publication Date: 2018-07-09
    A year of weekly interviews (1949-1950) with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Peña disclose Rivera's iconoclastic views of life and the art world of that time.
  • Street Art of Resistance by Brady Wagoner (Editor); Sarah H. Awad (Editor)
    Call Number: Baker-Berry NX180.P64 S77 2017
    ISBN: 9783319633299
    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    This book explores how street art has been used as a tool of resistance to express opposition to political systems and social issues around the world. Aesthetic devices such as murals, tags, posters, street performances and caricatures are discussed in terms of how they are employed to occupy urban spaces and present alternative visions of social reality.
  • Give Me Life by Holly Barnet-Sánchez; Tim Drescher
    ISBN: 9780826357472
    Publication Date: 2016-12-15
    Chicanismo, the idea of what it means to be Chicano, was born in the 1970s, when grassroots activists, academics, and artists joined forces in the civil rights movimiento that spread new ideas about Mexican American history and identity. The community murals those artists painted in the barrios of East Los Angeles were a powerful part of that cultural vitality, and these artworks have been an important feature of LA culture ever since. This book offers detailed analyses of individual East LA murals, sets them in social context, and explains how they were produced.
  • How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture by Mary K. Coffey
    ISBN: 9780822350200
    Publication Date: 2012-04-17
    A public art movement initiated by the postrevolutionary state, Mexican muralism has long been admired for its depictions of popular struggle and social justice. Mary K. Coffey revises traditional accounts of Mexican muralism by describing how a radical art movement was transformed into official culture, ultimately becoming a tool of state propaganda. Analyzing the incorporation of mural art into Mexico's most important public museums--the Palace of Fine Arts, the National History Museum, and the National Anthropology Museum--Coffey illuminates the institutionalization of muralism and the political and aesthetic issues it raised.
  • Cover ArtOrozco's American Epic by Mary K. Coffey
    ISBN: 1478003308
    Publication Date: 2020-02-28
    Between 1932 and 1934, José 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.
  • Cover ArtThe Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican by Helen Delpar
    ISBN: 0817389199
    Publication Date: 2015-01-01
    The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican traces the evolution of cultural relations between the United States and Mexico from 1920 to 1935, identifying the individuals, institutions, and themes that made up this fascinating chapter in the history of the two countries.
  • Cover ArtThe Hovey Murals at Dartmouth College by Walter Beach Humphrey; Brian P. Kennedy (Editor); Colin G. Calloway (Other); Mary Coffey (Other); Rayna Green (Other); Robert McGrath (Other); Melanie Benson Taylor (Contribution by)
    ISBN: 9781611680294
    Publication Date: 2011-10-11
    This book aims to provide not only the history (and art history) of this mural but also its wider cultural and historical contexts. The existence of both Orozco's fresco and Humphrey's mural on a college campus provides a unique juxtaposition of certain extremes of 1930s mural art. As such, their creation represents an important and fascinating historical moment while bringing into sharper focus some of the issues surrounding the politics of art and images. This book is intended as a textbook for those studying these murals and also as a guide to understanding how they fit into a troubling and difficult history of envisioning Native Americans by non-natives in American literature and popular art.
  • Cover ArtWalls of Empowerment by Guisela Latorre
    ISBN: 0292793936
    Publication Date: 2010-09-01
    Exploring three major hubs of muralist activity in California, where indigenist imagery is prevalent, Walls of Empowerment celebrates an aesthetic that seeks to firmly establish Chicana/o sociopolitical identity in U.S. territory.

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Diego Rivera, "In the Trenches."  1923-1928.

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