ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF POPULAR ART IN MEXICO (1921-2021)

ISBN-13: 9786206368762 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str.

Carlos Bravo Marentes

Opis

September 19, 2021 marked the centennial of the First National Exhibition of Popular Arts held in Mexico. One hundred years of complex and complicated academic work and institutional practice on the handcrafted object and those who create it. One hundred years that went practically unnoticed; oblivion caused, perhaps, because both the academic work and the discourse of the Mexican State that recognizes, since then, the handcrafted object as an element of national identity, as part of the country's cultural heritage and the economic sustenance of thousands of families in the countryside and cities, contrasts drastically with its real development and the living conditions of those who create handcrafted objects.

O autorze

Professor-researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, Casa Libertad campus. With more than 30 years of research in the field of folk art and crafts and applied work with different communities and groups producing crafts in Mexico.