THE MANTON FOUNDATION ANNUAL OROZCO LECTURE
about
"Gestures of Hospitality: Siqueiros’s March of Humanity for the Hotel de México”
When
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
4:30-6:00PM
Where
Hood Auditorium
sponsor
Hood Museum of Art
Intended Audience(s)
Public
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George Flaherty, Assistant Professor of Latin American Art History at the University of Texas, Austin
Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros painted his last major work for a hotel project planned for the Mexico City Olympics—an epic reassertion of muralism’s mass appeal. After the state-sponsored Tlatelolco massacre in 1968, the mural also became an archive for the critical gestures available to Mexican citizens after decades of modernization under authoritarian rule.
Image caption: David Alfaro Siqueiros, March of Humanity on Earth and Toward the Cosmos, east apex, Polyforum Cultural Siqueiros, Mexico City, 1964-1971. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico City.
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