Description
Book SynopsisA sparkling account of the life and times of a couple who fostered a renaissance of interest in the history and traditional arts of Mexico's indigenous peoples.
Trade Review"[Williams'] detailed account of the lives, work and friends of Miguel and Rosa Covarrubias brings alive what some regard as the Golden Age of Mexican art in the 30s and 40s... Covarrubias is a handsomely produced and well presented book that gives a full and enlightening account of the career of the man who Antonio Rodriguez described as '...the encyclopedic artist of Mexico's rebirth...' in his El Nacional eulogy." - British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain "The rich tapestry of Mexican cultural life in the 1940s that [this book] evokes is spellbinding ..." - Cynthia Steele, associate professor of Spanish, University of Washington
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Beginnings (1904-1923)
- 2. The Twenties, Part One (1923-1924)
- 3. The Twenties, Part Two (1924-1929)
- 4. The Thirties, Part One (1930-1932)
- 5. The Thirties, Part Two (1932-1937)
- 6. The Thirties, Part Three (1935-1939)
- 7. The Forties, Part One (1940-1942)
- 8. The Forties, Part Two (1942)
- 9. The Forties, Part Three (1943-1949)
- 10. The Fifties, Part One (1950-1952)
- 11. The Fifties, Part Two (1952-1954)
- 12. The Fifties, Part Three (1955-1957)
- 13. Afterward (1957-1970)
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
