Mary K Coffey
Biographic Data
| ID | 511361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary K Coffey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary K |
| FAMILY NAME | Coffey |
| SIGNATURE | COFFEY M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rocks
José Clemente Orozco’s lithograph Rocks (1935) marks the moment when the Pedregal, a seventy-square-mile lava field that borders the southwestern edge of Mexico City, was transformed from “unworkable stone,” a geological zone of nonlife, to an atavistic zone of indigenized life and the “soul of Mexico.” Executed approximately one decade after archaeologists had discovered the Cuicuilco pyramid and approximately one decade before the development o…
Feeling Brown or Acting White
In this essay I undertake a speculative reading of two lithographic prints made by the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco during his second and longest stay in the United States, between 1928 and 1934. The first and last prints he made during this sojourn both represent spectacles of performance and pain associated with the public life of Blackness. Using affect theory to read the formal and iconographic cues in these prints, I suggest that they…
New (and a Few Old) Directions in Latin American Visual Cultural Studies
This essay reviews the following works:María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo: Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art. By Nancy Deffebach. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. vii + 225. 29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781477311004
Picturing the Proletariat
Picturing the Proletariat revisits the familiar territory of art, labor, and politics in postrevolutionary Mexico. Even though these topics dominate the historiography on modern Mexico, this thoroughly researched and copiously illustrated book is a welcome addition. John Lear offers expert analysis of visual culture, a feature often lacking in the historical literature on labor politics. Simultaneously, he provides a deeper and more nuanced accou…
Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art in Los Angeles
In this essay, I trace the Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art exhibition from its inception in a privatized programme managed by the transnational bank Banamex through its multiple instantiations within U.S. museums in order to explore the transnational politics of the exhibition, as well as its role in the diasporic emplacement of Mexican Americans. In so doing, I unsettle the ways we understand the commodification of difference through museum di…
Banking on Folk Art
This article offers two readings of The Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art, a travelling exhibition of the Fomento Cultural Banamex, AC's folk art collection that coincided with Citigroup's buyout of Banamex, Mexico's second largest bank. The first, a political economic critique, situates the exhibition within the neoliberal economic reform of the Mexican banking system and the designs of US-based transnational banks on migrant remittances. The se…
América Tropical. Directed by Jesus Treviño. New York
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Angels and Prostitutes
Entering the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City (figure 1), one is immediately ensconced in the rosy light of its lavish pink-marble interior. Ridiculed by critics as an architectural monstrosity, the Palace is nonetheless a hallowed site of Mexican cultural patrimony. It is a heritage site in and of itself, as well as home to the national symphony and ballet, a museum, and some of the most well-known and widely viewed monumental paintings by los…
Hoggingthe road
This essay examines how aesthetic, corporate and cultural formations have radically altered. motorcycling and its image over the past two decades as a means to highlight more general changes in cultural politics, citizenship and governing through culture. The essay begins with the Guggenheim's The Art of the Motorcycle exhibit, treated. as a means for shaping and governing thought and conduct about and on motorcycles. The essay then addresses num…
Banking on Folk Art
This article offers two readings of The Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art, a travelling exhibition of the Fomento Cultural Banamex, AC's folk art collection that coincided with Citigroup's buyout of Banamex, Mexico's second largest bank. The first, a political economic critique, situates the exhibition within the neoliberal economic reform of the Mexican banking system and the designs of US-based transnational banks on migrant remittances. The se…
Hoggingthe road
This essay examines how aesthetic, corporate and cultural formations have radically altered. motorcycling and its image over the past two decades as a means to highlight more general changes in cultural politics, citizenship and governing through culture. The essay begins with the Guggenheim's The Art of the Motorcycle exhibit, treated. as a means for shaping and governing thought and conduct about and on motorcycles. The essay then addresses num…
Angels and Prostitutes
Entering the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City (figure 1), one is immediately ensconced in the rosy light of its lavish pink-marble interior. Ridiculed by critics as an architectural monstrosity, the Palace is nonetheless a hallowed site of Mexican cultural patrimony. It is a heritage site in and of itself, as well as home to the national symphony and ballet, a museum, and some of the most well-known and widely viewed monumental paintings by los…
Hoggingthe road
This essay examines how aesthetic, corporate and cultural formations have radically altered. motorcycling and its image over the past two decades as a means to highlight more general changes in cultural politics, citizenship and governing through culture. The essay begins with the Guggenheim's The Art of the Motorcycle exhibit, treated. as a means for shaping and governing thought and conduct about and on motorcycles. The essay then addresses num…
América Tropical. Directed by Jesus Treviño. New York
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Banking on Folk Art
This article offers two readings of The Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art, a travelling exhibition of the Fomento Cultural Banamex, AC's folk art collection that coincided with Citigroup's buyout of Banamex, Mexico's second largest bank. The first, a political economic critique, situates the exhibition within the neoliberal economic reform of the Mexican banking system and the designs of US-based transnational banks on migrant remittances. The se…
Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art in Los Angeles
In this essay, I trace the Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art exhibition from its inception in a privatized programme managed by the transnational bank Banamex through its multiple instantiations within U.S. museums in order to explore the transnational politics of the exhibition, as well as its role in the diasporic emplacement of Mexican Americans. In so doing, I unsettle the ways we understand the commodification of difference through museum di…
Picturing the Proletariat
Picturing the Proletariat revisits the familiar territory of art, labor, and politics in postrevolutionary Mexico. Even though these topics dominate the historiography on modern Mexico, this thoroughly researched and copiously illustrated book is a welcome addition. John Lear offers expert analysis of visual culture, a feature often lacking in the historical literature on labor politics. Simultaneously, he provides a deeper and more nuanced accou…
New (and a Few Old) Directions in Latin American Visual Cultural Studies
This essay reviews the following works:María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo: Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art. By Nancy Deffebach. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. vii + 225. 29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781477311004
Feeling Brown or Acting White
In this essay I undertake a speculative reading of two lithographic prints made by the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco during his second and longest stay in the United States, between 1928 and 1934. The first and last prints he made during this sojourn both represent spectacles of performance and pain associated with the public life of Blackness. Using affect theory to read the formal and iconographic cues in these prints, I suggest that they…
Rocks
José Clemente Orozco’s lithograph Rocks (1935) marks the moment when the Pedregal, a seventy-square-mile lava field that borders the southwestern edge of Mexico City, was transformed from “unworkable stone,” a geological zone of nonlife, to an atavistic zone of indigenized life and the “soul of Mexico.” Executed approximately one decade after archaeologists had discovered the Cuicuilco pyramid and approximately one decade before the development o…
Art (8 works) · Art history (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works)