Mural gambits: Mexican muralism in the United States and the "portable" fresco. From: The Art Bulletin | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: Indych-Lopez, Anna | COPYRIGHT 2007 College Art Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The nationalistic imagery of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros displayed on the public walls of Mexico, a nation forging a new cultural identity in the wake of a long civil war (1910-20), captured the imagination of the art-viewing public in the United States in the late 1920s and 1930s. (1) The muralists, while initially rejecting the easel picture as "bourgeois," engaged the economy of small-scale media as a strategy for acquiring mural commissions in...

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