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Avant-garde art & artists in Mexico : Anita Brenner's journals of the roaring twenties
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Presents the journals of Anita Brenner, a young reporter in Mexico during the 1920s, providing a detailed account of her experiences and observations as part of Diego Rivera's inner circle, a group...
Presents the journals of Anita Brenner, a young reporter in Mexico during the 1920s, providing a detailed account of her experiences and observations as part of Diego Rivera's inner circle, a group of artists which included José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and features photographs of Brenner and images left out of her first book, "Idols Behind Altars."
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- Creator
- edited by Susannah Joel Glusker ; foreword by Carlos Monsiváis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010
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- 2 volumes (xxx, 861 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780292721845, 0292721846
- OCLC
- ocn607656856
- Issued in case.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Machine generated contents note: Volume 1 -- THE CONTEXT IN 1925 -- November 1925: Getting Started -- December 1925: The "Familia" -- THE CONTEXT IN 1926 -- January 1926: Working for Gruening -- February 1926: Posing for Weston -- March 1926: Casting Off the Spirits -- April 1926: Patzcuaro -- May 1926: Book Contract Comes Through -- June 1926: San Agustin Acolman -- July 1926: Gorgeous Weston and Modotti Stuff -- August 1926: Posing for Jean -- September 1926: Orozco's Mural Interrupted -- October 1926: Goitia's Xochimilco -- November 1926: Dia de Muertos -- December 1926: Pacheco Exhibition -- THE CONTEXT IN 1927 -- January 1927: With the Family in San Antonio -- February 1927: Appendicitis -- March 1927: Getting into Secret Files -- April 1927: "You Are Too Young!" -- May 1927: Exploring Yucatan -- June 1927: Nacho Asunsolo vs. Diego Rivera -- July 1927: Posing for Tina Modotti -- August 1927: Hacienda La Llave -- Volume 2 -- September 1927: Moving On to New York -- October 1927: Enrolling at Columbia -- November 1927: Transition -- December 1927: Full-fledged Anthropology -- THE CONTEXT IN 1928 -- January 1928: Promoting Mexican Art -- February 1928: Journalism Reemerges -- March 1928: Music -- April 1928: Writing for the Encyclopedia -- May 1928: The Chalma Dream -- June 1928: Cultural Identity -- July 1928: Journalism and Philosophy -- August 1928: Publisher Found -- THE CONTEXT IN 1929 AND 1930: PUBLISHED DOCTORATE AWARDED. AND MARRIED -- January 1929: Mella Murdered -- March 1929: Social Whirl -- May 1929: Visiting the Rockefellers -- June 1929: Meeting Prince Charming -- July 1929: Giving Siqueiros a Hand -- August 1929: All about David -- September 1929: Idols Behind Altars Published -- October 1929: Being an Author -- November 1929: Overload -- February 1930: Catching Up with Academia -- March-June 1930: Guggenheim Grant and a Wedding