Main Themes, Keywords
art and architecture, frescoes, history of The New School, Latin American Art, Mexican Muralist Movement, Mexican Modernism, muralism, globalization, socio-political critique, transnationalism, revolution, red scare, freedom of expression, McCarthyism, utopia, Delphic Circle
Related Works from The New School Art Collection
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In the News
Historical Context
Miliotes, Diane. “The Murals at The New School for Social Research (1930-1931).” In José Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934, edited by Renato Gonzalez Mello, and Diane Miliotes, 118-141. Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, W.W. Norton, 2002.
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945, exhibition at the Whitney: