The Epic of American Civilization: Modern Human Sacrifice (Panel 17)

Inscriptions

Signed, east wall (Panel 11): J. C. Orozco / Febrero 13, 1934

Course History

ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022

ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022

ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022

ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022

ARTH 63.01/LACS 48.01, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Fall 2022

GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Fall 2022

WRIT 2.06, Composition and Research I, Doug Moody, Fall 2022

Writing Program 5.08, Reviewing Ourselves: Critical Writing and Personal Values, Bill Craig, Winter 2023

Latino Studies 37.01, Migrant Lives and Labor, Doug Moody, Spring 2023

Geography 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Fall 2023

Writing 5.09, Reviewing Ourselves: Critical Writing and Personal Values, Bill Craig, Winter 2024

Writing 5.08, Reviewing Ourselves: Critical Writing and Personal Values, Bill Craig, Winter 2024

Geography 33.01, Geopolitics and Third World Development, Geneva Smith, Spring 2024

Tuck Facilitated Experience: Tuck School Conference Group, Summer 2023

Thayer Facilitated Experience: Climate Risk Management Group, Summer 2023

Exhibition History

Public Art, Reserve Corridor, Baker-Berry Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1934.

Publication History

Desmond Rochfort, Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Singapore: Laurence King Publishing, 1993, pp.99-119, ill. p. 109

Master Works of Mexican Art in the World, Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Institute Matias Romero for Diplomatic Studies, 1993

Editorial Clio, Orozco segun Orozco, (Video-in Spanish), Delagacion Coyoacan, Mexico: Editorial Clio, 1998, approx. 43 minutes.

David G. Wilkins, Bernard Schultz and Katheryn M. Linduff, Art Past and Present, 6th edition, London, UK: Prentice Hall, Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2008, 655 pp., ill. p. 546

Jose Clemente Orozco: Pintura y verdad, Jalisco, Mexico: Instituto Cultural Cabanas, 2010, pp.166-181, ill. p.176.

Mary K. Coffey, Sharon Lorenzo, Lisa Mintz Messinger, Stephen Polcari, Men of Fire, Jose Clemente Orozco and Jackson Pollock, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2012, ill. p.53; p. 32, fig. 59.

Margit Kern, Transkulturelle Imaginationen des Opfers in der Fruhen Neuzeit, Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, Neue Grunstrabe 17, 468 pp., ill. p. 338.

Warren Carter, ed., Art after Empire: From Colonialism to Globalisation, Manchester: Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, 2018, pp. 84-89, ill. p. 87, fig. 2.24.

Provenance

Commissioned by the Trustees of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1932.

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