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AVANT-GARDE ART AND ARTISTS IN MEXICO
ANITA BRENNER'S JOURNALS OF THE ROARING TWENTIES |
| By: |
Susannah Joel Glusker (Editor), Carlos Monsivais (Foreword), Anita Brenner |
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Hardback |
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£112.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0292721846 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780292721845 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2010 |
| Series: |
The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the |
| Pages: |
901 |
| Description: |
With more than six hundred images by photographers and artists, this title constitutes a visual and verbal portrait of the 'Mexican Renaissance' of the 1920s. |
| Synopsis: |
The Mexican Revolution-that violent, inchoate, never-quite-complete break with the past-opened a new era in Mexican art and letters now known as the "Mexican Renaissance." In Mexico City, a coterie of artists including Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros explored how art could forward revolutionary ideals-and, in the process, spent countless hours talking, gossiping, arguing, and partying. Into this milieu came Anita Brenner, in her early twenties already trying her hand as a journalist, art critic, and anthropologist. Her journals of the period 1925 to 1930 vividly transport us to this vital moment in Mexico, when building a "new nation" was the goal.Brenner became a member of Rivera's inner circle, and her journals provide fascinating portraits of its members, including Orozco, Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, and Jean Charlot, with whom she had an unusual loving relationship. She captures the major and minor players in the act of creating works for which they are now famous and records their comings and goings, alliances and feuds. Numerous images of their art brilliantly counterpoint her diary descriptions. Brenner also reveals her own maturation as a perceptive observer and writer who, at twenty-four, published her first book, Idols Behind Altars. Her initial plan for Idols included four hundred images taken by photographers Edward Weston and Tina Modotti. Many of these images, which were ultimately not included in Idols, are published here for the first time along with stunning portraits of Brenner herself. Setting the scene for the journal is well-known Mexican cultural critic Carlos Monsivais, who offers an illuminating discussion of the Mexican Renaissance and the circle around Diego Rivera. |
| Illustrations: |
597 b&w and color illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Texas Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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