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Between 1932 and 1934, Jose Clemente Orozco painted the
twenty-four-panel mural cycle entitled The Epic of American
Civilization in Dartmouth College's Baker-Berry Library. An
artifact of Orozco's migration from Mexico to the United States,
the Epic 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 Orozco's American Epic Mary K. Coffey places Orozco in the
context of his contemporaries, such as Diego Rivera and David
Alfaro Siqueiros, and demonstrates the Epic'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.
This book examines the pictorial representation of women in Great
Britain both before and during the First World War. It focuses in
particular on imagery related to suffrage movements, recruitment
campaigns connected to the war, advertising, and Modernist art
movements including Vorticism. This investigation not only
considers the image as a whole, but also assesses tropes and
constructs as objects contained within, both literal and
metaphorical. In this way visual genealogical threads including the
female figure as an ideal and William Hogarth's 'line of beauty'
are explored, and their legacies assessed and followed through into
the twenty-first century. Georgina Williams contributes to debates
surrounding the deliberate and inadvertent dismissal of women's
roles throughout history, through literature and imagery. This book
also considers how absence of a pictorial manifestation of the
female form in visual culture can be as important as her presence.
'Does full justice to the remarkable achievements of an unlikely
martyr' Mail on Sunday 'A fascinating study of a handful of the
potential motivations behind violent political acts through the
balanced examination of a remarkable woman' All About History Lady
Constance Lytton (1869-1923) was the most unlikely of suffragettes.
One of the elite, she was the daughter of a Viceroy of India and a
lady in waiting to the Queen. She grew up in the family home of
Knebworth and in embassies around the world. For forty years, she
did nothing but devote herself to her family, denying herself the
love of her life and possible careers as a musician or a reviewer.
Then came a chance encounter with a suffragette. Constance was
intrigued; witnessing Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst on trial
convinced her of the urgent necessity of votes for women and she
went to prison for the cause as gleefully as any child going on a
school trip. But, once jailed, Constance soon found that her name
and her connections singled her out for unwelcome special
treatment. By now, 1909, the suffragettes were hunger striking and
the government had retaliated with force-feeding. The stories that
began to leak out of bungled operations, of dirty tubes, of screams
halfheard through brick walls, of straitjackets and handcuffs
outraged the suffragettes. Constance decided on her most radical
step yet: to go to prison in disguise. Taking the name Jane Warton,
she cut her hair, put on glasses and ugly clothes and got herself
arrested in Liverpool. Once in prison, she was force-fed eight
times before her identity was discovered and she was released. Her
case became a cause celebre, with debate raging in The Times and
questions being asked in the House of Commons. Lady Constance
Lytton became an inspiration and, in the end, a martyr. In this
extraordinary new biography, Lyndsey Jenkins reveals for the first
time the fascinating story of the woman who abandoned a life of
privilege to fight for women s rights.
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