"Mexican Art Masterpieces showcases forty-eight of the most unique and fascinating pieces of Mexican art - ancient ceramic statues and mosaic masks from the Mayans and Aztecs, tomb facades and interior temple reliefs, feather pictures, monstrances, classically inspired paintings by artists of the viceregal period including Baltasar de Echave Orio and Juan Rodriguez Juarez, nineteenth-century masterpieces by Obregon and Velasco, and twentieth-century favorites including works by Mexican muralists Rivera, Orozco, and O'Gorman as well as Siqueiros, Kahlo, Tamayo and others. The forty-eight essays that accompany the works combine scholarship with passionate storytelling, and reveal the complicated connections between the Mexican identity, politics, society, and art."--BOOK JACKET.