Research and fieldwork project focusing on the comparison of mural paintings from pre-Hispanic time in Mexico and Guatemala with contemporary murals, including Diego Rivera, Spanish Missions in California, and Chicano murals in the USA. Fieldwork conducted 1998-2000.

Researcher: June Anderson
Photographs: Unless otherwise noted, all photographs are by June Anderson

 
Above: The Battle Scene, Cacaxtla (650-900 CE), Mexico
Left: Stylized bird with shield (detail) Teotihuacan, Mexico. Photo source: Fragmentos del Pasado: Murales Prehispanicos (Mexico City: Artes de Mexico, 1998)
Above: Artists restore a 16th-century mural in the Church of Nuestra Senora del Rosario, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
Right: Murals in the Colonial 
Cathedral of Malinalco, Mexico
 
Left: Coatlicue y la Maquina Moderna-- one of five panels on the theme of Past & Present, at City College of San Francisco. By Diego Rivera, 1940. 
 
Right: La Cultural Totonac (detail), in the Palacio Nacional, Mexico. By Diego Rivera, 1945-1952.


Both photos from: Diego Rivera, Pintura Mural by Antonio Rodriguez. (Mexico, DF: Fondo Editorial de la Plastica Mexicana, 1987)
 


Left, above: Elementary school mural. Guatemala City, 1992

Left, below: The Cockfight, mural on Talaveras tiles. Uriarte Factory, Puebla, Mexico, 2000


 

Street Mural, Tucson, Arizona
 
Left: Latino murals in Balmy Alley, San Francisco 

Below, left: "Juventud del Mundo, Vamos a Crear Un Mundo Mejor" (Youth of the world, let's create a better world). By Xochitl Nevel-Guerrero and Crystal Nevel, 1984. Balmy Alley, San Francisco. (PHOTO: Beth Gerard)

Below, right: Section of large mural, "Las Lechugueras" (The Women Lettuce Workers). By Juana Alicia, 1985. York and 24th Streets, San Francisco. (PHOTO: Beth Gerard)


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