登入
選單
返回
Google圖書搜尋
Painted Walls of Mexico
Phyllis La Farge
Magdalena Caris
出版
Turner Libros
, 2008
主題
Art / Caribbean & Latin American
Design / Decorative Arts
History / Latin America / Mexico
Photography / General
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional
ISBN
9689056239
9789689056232
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WZUmAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
When author Phyllis La Farge and photographer Magdalena Caris recently took a journey from the city of Xalapa in the state of Veracruz to the town of Coatepec, they noted that on the facades of countless public and private buildings, improvised murals had been painted. The wit and exuberance of these wall paintings, whether commercial or simply decorative, suggested an urban visual lingo that could be traced to the ancestral murals of pre-Columbian Mexico, and La Farge and Caris decided that they deserved closer study. Somewhere between a scholarly investigation and a travel book,
Painted Walls of Mexico
documents these often anonymous interventions. As Homero Aridjis writes in the preface, "
Painted Walls
is not only an invaluable testimony to this undervalued art which is disappearing from our streets, but honors the unknown artists who, with humor and imagination but without the slightest recognition, convert the streets of their town into an open gallery."