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Jose Clemente Orozco
1932Best.-Nr. 378New York: Delphic Studios 1932. First edition limited numbered edition. Original publisher black cloth. Good. Jose Clemente Orozco. Scarce signed copy by Orozco of this limited-edition compilation of the renowned Mexican painter's and muralist's work. Condition: Good. Without the scarce glassine dust jacket and slipcase. BOOK INFO Signed by Orozco on the half-title in blue ink. Published by Delphic Studios in New York City in 1932. First edition first printing. Limited edition #1026 signed by publisher on rear pastedown. In its original black cloth covered boards with paper pastedown label on front cover. Quarto 11.25" x 8.75". Collated and complete: unpaginated 272 pp. with hundreds of black and white photographic images of the artist's work. CONDITION REPORT The book is in Good collectible condition. Exterior and binding: spine lean covers a bit loose a bit shaken with strained binding in places. Cover cloth faded and worn. Chips to cloth at spine tips. Fraying along edges and joints in places. Crack through front cover label. Bumped and heavily worn corners. Soiling to cloth in places. Top edge darkened per usual. Interior: Toned endpapers. Lightly toned pages. Plate images in excellent condition. Quarter sized water dampening stain to foot of fore-edge of text block. 1/2" tear to head of 27-28 pp. No bookplates writing or foxing. ABOUT THE ARTIST José Clemente Orozco November 23 1883 - September 7 1949 was a Mexican caricaturist and painter who specialized in political murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera David Alfaro Siqueiros and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists fond of the theme of human suffering but less realistic and more fascinated by machines than Rivera. Mostly influenced by Symbolism he was also a genre painter and lithographer. Between 1922 and 1948 Orozco painted murals in Mexico City; Orizaba; Claremont California; New York City; Hanover New Hampshire; Guadalajara Jalisco; and Jiquilpan Michoacán. With Diego Rivera he was a leader of the artist movement known as Mexican Muralism. An important distinction he had from Rivera was his darker view of the Mexican Revolution. While Rivera was a bold optimistic figure touting the glory of the revolution Orozco was less comfortable with the bloody toll the social movement was taking. Orozco is known as one of the Big Three muralists along with Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. All three artists as well as the painter Rufino Tamayo experimented with fresco on large walls and elevated the art of the mural. Delphic Studios unknown
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