Wrought Lessons: Woodcarving and the Neocolonial in Mexico with Dr. Lynda Klich

During the Mexican state’s revolutionary reform project of the 1920s, a colonial revivalist culture emerged in which artists embraced wood carving in the form of woodcuts and applied arts in the built environment. This talk explores the role of carved wood works in furthering the ideologies of the ruling elite, revealing the classed and raced tensions in postrevolutionary society.