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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mary K. CoffeyPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 1.225kg ISBN: 9781478001782ISBN 10: 147800178 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 28 February 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table 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"ReviewsCritiquing melancholy through the lenses of performance and critical race studies, decoloniality, and transnationalism, Coffey offers a nuanced interpretation of Orozco's political art. She presents Orozco's Epic as a compelling counternarrative that reappraises debates about identity, immigration, and nationalism. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals. -- L. Estevez * Choice * Coffey's scholarship is singular in its depth of critical analysis of Orozco's Epic and, for this reason, will likely be considered among the foremost explorations of the work. . . . This book is highly recommended for every academic library collection. -- Colleen Farry * ARLIS/NA * This is a spectacular piece of scholarship. Any study of Mexican mural painting in the context of Mexico is challenging enough, but adding the extra level of context as a work on US soil would defeat a less ambitious and less courageous scholar than Mary K. Coffey. Any scholar who can speak with great authority on the theories of Benjamin, Freud, and Butler on the same page and then apply those insights to the work of a Mexican painter is a scholar of almost shocking sophistication and intellectual conviction. This book needed to be written, and Coffey has delivered in glorious fashion. -- Leonard Folgarait, coeditor of * Mexican Muralism: A Critical History * Orozco's American Epic is original in its intent, theoretically sophisticated, and clearly elaborated. Mary K. Coffey does not settle for easy interpretations of Orozco's mural but rather dwells purposively on the difficult questions it raises. An outstanding book. -- Claire F. Fox, author of * Making Art Panamerican: Cultural Policy and the Cold War * This is a spectacular piece of scholarship. Any study of Mexican mural painting in the context of Mexico is challenging enough, but adding the extra level of context as a work on US soil would defeat a less ambitious and less courageous scholar than Mary K. Coffey. Any scholar who can speak with great authority on the theories of Benjamin, Freud, and Butler on the same page and then apply those insights to the work of a Mexican painter is a scholar of almost shocking sophistication and intellectual conviction. This book needed to be written, and Coffey has delivered in glorious fashion. -- Leonard Folgarait, coeditor of * Mexican Muralism: A Critical History * Orozco's American Epic is original in its intent, theoretically sophisticated, and clearly elaborated. Mary K. Coffey does not settle for easy interpretations of Orozco's mural but rather dwells purposively on the difficult questions it raises. An outstanding book. -- Claire F. Fox, author of * Making Art Panamerican: Cultural Policy and the Cold War * Author InformationMary K. Coffey is Associate Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College. She is the author of How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals, Museums, and the Mexican State, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Modern Art in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: An Introduction to Global Modernisms. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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