"Oppressed and Destroyed" David Alfaro Siqueiros's America Tropical and 1932 Los Angeles

被引：0

作者：

Montgomery, S. Janelle ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Amon Carter Museum Amer Art, Ft Worth, TX 76107 USA

[2] Modern Art Museum Ft Worth, Ft Worth, TX 76107 USA

来源：

PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW | 2020年 / 89卷 / 04期

关键词：

David Alfaro Siqueiros; murals; Los Angeles; Olvera Street; Mexican American; OLVERA STREET; LOS-ANGELES;

D O I：

10.1525/phr.2020.89.4.528

中图分类号：

K [历史、地理];

学科分类号：

06 ;

摘要：

In 1932 in Depression-era Los Angeles, Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros took advantage of a unique site on Olvera Street to confront Los Angeles's establishment on behalf of not only Mexican Americans in California but the proletariat everywhere. The resulting mural, America tropical, challenged Los Angeles's sanitized history of its Mexican past and the persecution of the city's immigrant working class. The establishment responded by requesting that Siqueiros leave the country and by whitewashing the mural. In the late 1960s, the white overpaint began to fade, and America tropical re-emerged to play a part in another chapter of the politics of race and class in Los Angeles. Revisiting the mural and its destruction illuminates the complex interplay between outdoor art and civic discourse.

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页码：528 / 556

页数：29