<![CDATA[Blanton Museum of Art Collections]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/browse?tags=1986.100&output=rss2 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:51:26 -0500 koven.smith@blantonmuseum.org (Blanton Museum of Art Collections) Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[La maestra rural [The Rural Teacher]]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2653

Dublin Core

Creator

Diego Rivera

Title

La maestra rural [The Rural Teacher]

Date Created

1932

Spatial Coverage

40.3 cm x 57.9 cm (15 7/8 in. x 22 13/16 in.)

Identifier

1986.100

Medium

Lithograph

Description

The Rural Teacher, based on a scene from Diego Rivera’s monumental frescoes at the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City, highlights the complexities of the role of female teachers in the aftermath of the revolution. Here we see a woman of indigenous descent teaching under the watchful eye of a Federal guard. Such teachers worked with extremely limited resources to reduce the ninety percent illiteracy rate and inform the people of their rights as citizens. Since these rights included claims to ancestral lands, anti-revolutionary forces were a constant threat to this rural education program. Women who pursued this new opportunity for socially engaged work were also putting themselves at grave risk of violence.

Rights Holder

Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1986

Date

Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957, Mexico City

Type

print

Has Version

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1440
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