1976/03/01 by Laurance P. Hurlburt · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Engineering · #Photographic and Visual Arts #Art, Politics, and Modernism #Mural #Period (music) #Politics #Visual arts #Wish #Work (physics) #Art history #Political science #Soviet union #Art #Sociology #Aesthetics #Engineering #Law #Literature #Mechanical engineering
paper · doi:10.1080/00043249.1976.10793284
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The muralistic development of Siqueiros during the 1930s has been scarcely touched by scholarly investigation.1 I wish to examine in detail an important aspect of Siqueiros' artistic experimentation of the 1930s—his New York “Experimental Workshop” of 1936, which was an important step along the way toward the culminating work of this period, the Electricians' Union mural (Mexico, D.F.) of 1939–40. In addition to the importance of the technical experimentation of Siqueiros' Workshop, my study will consider the Workshop's intense political commitment, so characteristic of the political involvement of the artist during the New Deal period.2