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Transforming Public Space: Mural Art in Mexico and the United States

This course began with a focus on the work of José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, who began their careers in Mexico, but who also produced significant and highly politicized art in the US. We analyzed many reproductions of Rivera’s and Orozco’s art and viewed documentaries and feature films that illustrate aspects of their lives, and we studied how their work has influenced later generations of Latino/a mural and graffiti artists in the United States.

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