The Art of Mexico!: The SJRCC Orange Park Campus Library Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

Titles at the SJRCC Libraries Selected by Eric Biggs

PAL = Palatka Campus | OPC = Orange Park Campus | SAC = St. Augustine Campus

The Art and Architecture of Mexico: From 10,000 B.C. to the Present Day by Pedro Rojas

Call number: PAL - N6550 .R6 1968

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait - Publisher's Marketing: "Published here in its entirety for the first time, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life. This passionate, often surprising, intimate record, kept under lock and key for some forty years in Mexico, reveals many new dimensions in the complex persona of this remarkable Mexican artist. Covering the years 1944-54, the 170-page journal contains Frida's thoughts, poems, and dreams, and reflects her stormy relationship with her husband, Diego Rivera, Mexico's most famous artist. The seventy watercolor illustrations in the journal - some lively sketches, several elegant self-portraits, others complete paintings - offer insights into her creative process, and show her frequently using the journal to work out pictorial ideas for her canvases."

Call number: SAC - ND259.K33 A2 1995

The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera by Bertram David Wolfe

Call number: PAL - ND259.R5 W56 1963

Frida Kahlo: A Modern Master - Publisher's Marketing: "Mexican painter Firda Kahlo first began to paint her brilliantly colored, highly stylized works, while recovering from an auto accident. Encouraged by muralist Diego Rivera, whom she later married, she produced more than 200 paintings that speak directly to contemporary feminist issues. Though her work was often overlooked during her lifetime, Kahlo is now ranked among the great masters of the twentieth century. This volume chronicles Kahlo's life and work with archival photographs and full-color illustrations of her greatest paintings."

Call number: SAC - ND259.K33 H37 2006

Her works are so incendiary in emotion and subject matter that one art critic suggested the walls of an exhibition be covered with asbestos.

In this beautiful book, art historian Hayden Herrera brings together numerous paintings and sketches by the amazing Mexican artist, documenting each with explanatory text that probes the influences in Kahlo's life and their meaning for her work. Included among the illustrations are more than eighty full-color paintings, as well as dozens of black-and-white pictures and line illustrations. Among the famous and little-known works included in Frida Kahlo: The Paintings are The Two Fridas, Self-Portrait as a Tehuana, Without Hope, The Dream, The Little Deer, Diego and I, Henry Ford Hospital, My Birth, and My Nurse and I. Here, too, are documentary photographs of Frida Kahlo and her world that help to illuminate the various stages of her life."

Call number: SAC - ND259.K33 H4 2002

Leopoldo Mé ndez is the first book-length work in English on this major Mexican artist. Profusely illustrated with over one hundred and fifty images, it examines the whole sweep of Mé ndez's artistic career. Deborah Caplow situates Mé ndez within both Mexican and international art of the twentieth century, tracing the lines of connection and influence between Mé ndez and such contemporaries as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and printmaker José Guadalupe Posada. Caplow focuses on the period in the 1930s when Mé ndez and his fellow artists in LEAR and TGP played a key role in the development of a Mexican political art movement and a modern Mexican cultural identity. She also describes how Mé ndez created a body of powerful anti-Fascist images before and during World War II and subsequently collaborated with artists from Mexico and around the world on political printmaking, in addition to publishing books and creating prints forfilms by the eminent Mexican cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa."

Call number: SAC - NE546 .M4 C37 2007

Mexican Art by Justino Fernandez

Call number: PAL - N6550 .F417 1965

Posada's Popular Mexican Prints - Publisher's Marketing: "273 great 19th-century woodcuts: crimes, miracles, skeletons, ads, portraits, news cuts. Table of contents includes Calaveras; Disasters; National Events; Religion and Miracles; Don Chepito Marihuano; Chapbook Covers; Chapbook Illustrations; and Everyday Life."

Call number: PAL - NE546.P6 B47 1972

Posada's Mexico edited by Ron Tyler

Call number: PAL - NE546.P6 A4 1979

Siqueiros by David Alfaro Siqueiros

Call number: PAL - ND259.A4 G823 1965 OVRSZ

Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead: The Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond - Publisher's Marketing: "Each October, as the Day of the Dead draws near, Mexican markets overflow with decorated breads, fanciful paper cutouts, and whimsical toy skulls and skeletons. To honor deceased relatives, Mexicans decorate graves and erect home altars. Drawing on a rich array of historical and ethnographic evidence, this volume reveals the origin and changing character of this celebrated holiday. It explores the emergence of the Day of the Dead as a symbol of Mexican and Mexican-American national identity.
Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead poses a serious challenge to the widespread stereotype of the morbid Mexican, unafraid of death, and obsessed with dying. In fact, the Day of the Dead, as shown here, is a powerful affirmation of life and creativity. Beautifully illustrated, this book is essential for anyone interested in Mexican culture, art, and folklore, as well as contemporary globalization and identity formation."

Call number: SAC - GT4995.A4 B73 2006

Treasures of Mexico from the Mexican National Museums =Tesoros de México de los Museos Nacionales Mexicanos: An Exhibition Presented by the Armand Hammer Foundation edited by Olga Hammer and Jeanne D'Andrea

Call number: PAL - N6550 .T73 1978

Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art

Call number: PAL - N6560 .N4 1972