LA MANO SINIESTRA DE JOSÉ CLEMENTE OROZCO : (DERIVACIONES, TRANSBORDOS Y FUGAS)

"The human hand is the weapon José Clemente Orozco uses in his art work to create, destroy and transform reality", explains critic and researcher Ernesto Lumbreras. The loss of his left hand in 1904, in an accident with gunpowder, determined largely the emotional content of the artistic production of Jose Clement Orozco, a graphic element present in most of his canvas painting and murals. The compiled essays here, bring us, with the curiosity of a fable and the rigor of the data, to unravel the artistic passion of Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) to draw and paint hands along his career. And in counterpoint to those visual recreations by the great one-handed muralist, missing his left hand since he was twenty years of age, this book-of miscellaneous layers and supporter of playful seduction- summons in its index a gallery of celebrations of the human hand, a wonder and a miracle of the anatomy, a source of language and thinking according to the studies of the most demanding linguists. Throughout the pages of The sinister hand of José Clemente Orozco" parade neurologists, philosophers, pirates, novelists, sculptors, pianists, magicians, politicians, mimes, poets, filmmakers, musicians, painters and dancers who have watched the greatness of such members, trying to unravel riddles and symbols." (Our translation) --Verso Cover.