Mary K. Coffey, How a Revolutionary Art Became Official Culture: Murals, Museums, and the Mexican State; Adriana Zavala, Becoming Modern, Becoming Tradition: Women, Gender, and Representation in Mexican Art; Shelley E. Garrigan, Collecting Mexico: Museums, Monuments, and the Creation of National Identity

Abstract

Three new books on Mexican art and visual production by Mary Coffey, Adriana Zavala, and Shelley Garrigan situate themselves explicitly at the intersection between art history, social history, lite...