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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9789681657949
Edition: 1. ed. en espanol
ISBN: 9681657942
Label: Fondo de Cultura Economica
Manufacturer: Fondo de Cultura Economica
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 420
Publication Date: December 31, 2000
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Economica
Studio: Fondo de Cultura Economica



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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Miguel Covarrubias es un hombre indispensable en la historia cultural de México. Su pasión por la antropología, la arqueología, la historia, la pintura, la danza y otras muchas artes, lo colocan entre los personajes más vitales de nuestro país. Conocer su vida significa descubrir la evolución artística de México en las primeras décadas del siglo XX.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Ultimate Covarrubias
There is no better documentation of Covarrubias, his charmed and richly productive life, and the complicity of his partnership with Rosa, until it all fell apart. An invaluable resource, revealing a singular chapter in 20th century art, society, and the rediscovery of the ancient Mexican legacy.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - a genius of life and art
Though less well known than Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Miguel and Rosa Covarrubias were much more interesting as people and as artists. Miguel Covarrubias had the good fortune to emerge in a golden age when art and adventure met at the fabulous intersection that was the 1920s. It is unimaginable now that a serious anthropolgist could have been regularly published as a caricaturist for Vanity Fair, and simultaneously take part in the Harlem Renaissance (his drawings celebrating modern urban black ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great reading
This book was so much fun to read! Covarrubias (and his wife Rosa) led the most fascinating lives. They were both great artists who also spent a great deal of time with other great artists, writers, musicians, actors and philanthropists of the early-mid 20th century in Mexico and the US including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Jose Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Zora Neal Hurston, Nelson Rockerfeller,Delores del Rio, just to name a few. Today unfortunately Miguel Covarrubias is one the ... Read More






 






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