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The Paintings of María Izquierdo: Alters, Portraits, Dreams

by Blaze Carter
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781964003290
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Zone Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Zone Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 74
  • Original Price: USD 14.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 82 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History / 20th & 21st Century

This beautiful small-format book offers a clear, intimate look at the life and work of Mexican painter Mar�a Izquierdo (1902-1955), an artist whose power was long overshadowed by the larger narratives of Mexican modernism. With a new essay written in the warm, perceptive voice of Blaze Carter, the book traces Izquierdo's early years, her emergence as a female artist within a male-dominated art world, the symbolic richness of her altars, drawings, paintings and portraits, and the quiet defiance embedded in her dreamlike imagery.

Accompanied by a curated selection of reproductions - portraits, still lifes, circus scenes, devotional altars, and lesser-known works - the essay brings readers into close proximity with the painter's world. It follows Izquierdo's journey as one of the significantfrom her early training to her complicated relationship with the official mural movement, her personal struggles, and her late works marked by intensity and vulnerability. The final section reflects on her reception and legacy in contemporary art, considering why her absence from mainstream art history has become part of the story we must now explore, and celebrate.

Designed to be explored in stolen moments or read in a single sitting, the book offers an aesthetic experience rather than a survey, giving general readers and art lovers a way to encounter Izquierdo's work up close - without the distance of museum glass or the weight of academic framing. It is an invitation to spend time with an artist who painted without fanfare, insisted on interior truth, and left behind a body of work that still feels startlingly present.

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