Kenton Haleem, CSU-Los Angeles
“Visual Imagery in Public Art: An Attempt to Change or Control a Mexican Society”

My thesis focuses on public art created in Mexico from 1880 to 1940. It discusses how the elite and particular artists used art to either suppress or ignite the popular masses in social or political change. Emphasis in the paper is given to how art contributed to the creation of national meta-narratives before and after the revolution of 1910, and how those meta-narratives either succeeded or failed.