About the Program:
The Art Deco Society of New York is proud to present this special web-based event with celebrated curator, Barbara Haskell, who will share with us her recent exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art that the New York Times termed “stupendous.” This event will give our members an opportunity to visit this stellar exhibition, which reoriented art history by revealing the profound impact Mexican muralists had on their counterparts in the United States from 1925–1945.
Haskell's presentation will begin with a look at how Mexico underwent a radical cultural transformation at the end of its Revolution in 1920, which established a new relationship between art and the public, giving rise to art that spoke directly to the people about social justice and national life. As we explore the stunning period works included in Haskell's exhibition, we will see the many important ways Mexican muralists inspired American artists both to create epic narratives about American history and everyday life and to use their art to protest economic, social, and racial injustices.
This dynamic presentation will explore how, during the interwar years, numerous American artists traveled to Mexico, and the leading Mexican muralists of the period––José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros––spent extended periods of time in the United States, executing murals, paintings, and prints; exhibiting their work; and interacting with local artists.
Sign up today to see how the model presented by Mexican muralists of the Deco period galvanized artists in the United States who were seeking to break free of European aesthetic domination to create publicly significant and accessible native art.
Even though this program is online, it will include a live PowerPoint––with wonderful images that you will be able to see directly on your computer screen, tablet, or mobile device––as well as a moderated Q&A session with participants.
Can't join us at the time of the live event? No problem! When you register for the live program you are guaranteed to receive a recording of the entire program a few days after the live presentation, which you can watch at a time most convenient for you.
Click here to see the full New York Times review of the exhibition.
About the Speaker:
Barbara Haskell is a long-time curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, a well-known scholar on American modern art, and author of over thirty publications. Among the landmark thematic exhibitions she has curated are The American Century: Art & Culture 1900–1950 (1999), BLAM! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958–1964 (1984), and Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 (2020).
In addition, Haskell has curated retrospectives and authored accompanying scholarly monographs on a range of early-twentieth-century and post-war American artists, including H. C. Westermann (1978), Marsden Hartley (1980), Milton Avery (1982), Ralston Crawford (1985), Charles Demuth (1987), Red Grooms (1987), Donald Judd (1988), Burgoyne Diller (1990), Agnes Martin (1992), Joseph Stella (1994), Edward Steichen (2000), Elie Nadelman (2003), Oscar Bluemner (2005), Georgia O'Keeffe (2009), Lyonel Feininger (2011), Robert Indiana (2013), Stuart Davis (2016), and Grant Wood (2018).
In 2003, she was awarded the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
Registration:
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