Nicolas De Jesus: A Mexican Artist for Global Justice
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Nicolas De Jesus: A Mexican Artist for Global Justice
W035910 | $40.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
Patrice Giasson et al. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, 2022. Organized in association with Willowell Foundation.
176 pp. (4 foldout). well illustrated (all col.). 29 x 24 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9783777438443
This timely edition collects three decades of contemporary art by Nicolas De Jesus. In this stunning selection, poetically subversive artist Nicolas De Jesus celebrates life and condemns injustice. De Jesus became known for his dazzling skeleton characters, depicted working, celebrating, walking the streets, or crossing borders etched on amate- bark paper used in Pre-Columbian times to paint manuscripts. He also expressed his political commitments in powerful large-scale paintings and banners that tackle a wide range of urgent themes including immigration, human rights, and environmental instability. His artistic influences range from Mexican artistic traditions to international experience in cities like Chicago, Paris, and Jakarta. De Jesus' work also addresses crises as recent as the storming of the US Capitol, as well as the repression faced by migrants and Black Americans, and the disasters of COVID-19. Covering three decades of artwork, this book offers a challenge to the conventional definition of contemporary art and features essays by Felipe Ehrenberg, Patrice Giasson, Aline Hemond, Julian Kreimer, Caroline Perree, and Pablo Piccato.
Subject Headings: Latin American Art ; Western Art -- Mexico -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 -- Graphic Arts (Prints) ; Painting --
W035910 | $40.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
Patrice Giasson et al. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, 2022. Organized in association with Willowell Foundation.
176 pp. (4 foldout). well illustrated (all col.). 29 x 24 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9783777438443
This timely edition collects three decades of contemporary art by Nicolas De Jesus. In this stunning selection, poetically subversive artist Nicolas De Jesus celebrates life and condemns injustice. De Jesus became known for his dazzling skeleton characters, depicted working, celebrating, walking the streets, or crossing borders etched on amate- bark paper used in Pre-Columbian times to paint manuscripts. He also expressed his political commitments in powerful large-scale paintings and banners that tackle a wide range of urgent themes including immigration, human rights, and environmental instability. His artistic influences range from Mexican artistic traditions to international experience in cities like Chicago, Paris, and Jakarta. De Jesus' work also addresses crises as recent as the storming of the US Capitol, as well as the repression faced by migrants and Black Americans, and the disasters of COVID-19. Covering three decades of artwork, this book offers a challenge to the conventional definition of contemporary art and features essays by Felipe Ehrenberg, Patrice Giasson, Aline Hemond, Julian Kreimer, Caroline Perree, and Pablo Piccato.
Subject Headings: Latin American Art ; Western Art -- Mexico -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 -- Graphic Arts (Prints) ; Painting --
