{"product_id":"orozcos-american-epic-mary-k-coffey-9781478001782","title":"Orozco's American Epic: Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race","description":"Between 1932 and 1934, Jos  Clemente Orozco painted the twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Epic of American Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An artifact of Orozco's migration from Mexico to the United States, the \u003ci\u003eEpic\u003c\/i\u003e represents a turning point in his career, standing as the only fresco in which he explores both US-American and Mexican narratives of national history, progress, and identity. While his title invokes the heroic epic form, the mural indicts history as complicit in colonial violence. It questions the claims of Manifest Destiny in the United States and the Mexican desire to mend the wounds of conquest in pursuit of a postcolonial national project. In \u003ci\u003eOrozco's American Epic\u003c\/i\u003e Mary K. Coffey places Orozco in the context of his contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and demonstrates the \u003ci\u003eEpic\u003c\/i\u003e's power as a melancholic critique of official indigenism, industrial progress, and Marxist messianism. In the process, Coffey finds within Orozco's work a call for justice that resonates with contemporary debates about race, immigration, borders, and nationality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary K. Coffey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 147800178X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478001782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 8.10w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2020","brand":"Mary K. Coffey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995709866239,"sku":"9781478001782","price":107.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34d986f7-97cf-4fb4-908d-1bc0f0d753de.jpg?v=1683337384","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/orozcos-american-epic-mary-k-coffey-9781478001782","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}