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 Mexicos most important public museumsmdash;the Palace of Fine Arts; the National History Museum; and the National Anthropology Museummdash;Coffey illuminates the institutionalization of muralism and the political and aesthetic issues it raised. She focuses on the period between 1934; when Joseacute; Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera were commissioned to create murals in the Palace of Fine Arts; through the crisis of state authority in the 1960s. Coffey highlights a reciprocal relationship between Mexicos mural art and its museums. Muralism shaped exhibition practices; which affected the politics; aesthetics; and reception of mural art. Interpreting the iconography of Mexicos murals; she focuses on representations of mestizo identity; the preeminent symbol of postrevolutionary Mexico. Coffey argues that those gendered representations reveal a national culture project more invested in race and gender inequality than in race and class equality.
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