书名：Mexican Graphic Art / 墨西哥平面艺术

作者：Milena Oehy

出版：Scheidegger & Spiess，2017年

装帧：平装，320页

语种：英文

尺寸：17*23.5 cm

平面艺术素来是墨西哥大众艺术的主要表现形式之一。墨西哥平面艺术以醒目的视觉冲击力、粗犷的线条与繁复的细节，深刻折射出特定时代与地域的社会图景。迭戈·里维拉、何塞·瓜达卢佩·波萨达、莱奥波尔多·门德斯等艺术家的木版画与麻胶版画中，贫困与财富、爱情与残酷、日常生活的诗意与艰辛等主题交织迸发。

这本与苏黎世美术馆联袂策划、配合特展推出的精美图录，系统梳理了十九世纪末至二十世纪七十年代墨西哥平面艺术的发展脉络。全书以生动鲜明的全彩插图呈现五十幅关键作品，涵盖在墨西哥出生或生活的艺术家采用多元技法创作的版画。除波萨达的作品外，还收录了里维拉、门德斯、大卫·阿尔法罗·西凯罗斯的现实主义创作，以及鲁菲诺·塔马约、弗朗西斯科·托莱多的抽象作品。这些作品共同展现出对革命理念及政治社会文化的深切关注，其中最具代表性的当属"人民平面艺术工作室"——这个1937年由国际艺术家团体在墨西哥成立的版画工坊，曾大量制作支持工会运动、大众教育及社会主义议题的宣传单与海报。书中既有多幅描绘原住民风俗传统的图像，亦收录了墨西哥早期抽象艺术的探索之作。

通过汇集墨西哥重要平面艺术家的作品，米莱娜·奥伊为读者解读墨西哥平面艺术的源流与丰厚内涵提供了独特视角。

Graphic art has long been one of the principal expressions of popular art in Mexico. Visually striking, with bold lines and intricate details, Mexican graphic art is intensely evocative of the time and place in which it was created. Poverty and wealth, love and cruelty, and the poetry and hardships of everyday life are among the themes that emerge from the woodcut and linocut prints of Diego Rivera, José Guadalupe Posada, Leopoldo Méndez, and their contemporaries.

This beautifully illustrated book—designed and produced in collaboration with the Kunsthaus Zurich for an accompanying exhibition—offers an overview of the development of Mexican graphic art from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. Vivid, full-color illustrations feature fifty key works from artists who were born or lived in Mexico, printed using a range of techniques. In addition to prints by Posada, there are realist works by Rivera, Méndez, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as abstract works by Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Toledo. Together, the works evince an engagement with revolutionary ideas and political and sociocultural concerns that saw its fullest expression in works by members of the Taller de Gráfica Popular—a graphic art workshop established in 1937 by a collective of international artists in Mexico that produced flyers and posters supporting trade unions, popular education, and socialist issues in the country. While many of the images depict the customs and traditions of its indigenous populations, the book also incorporates some of the country’s first forays into abstract art.

By bringing together the works of important Mexican graphic artists, Milena Oehy offers unique insight into the history and richness of Mexican graphic art.