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As Mexico's "boy wonder" artist he came to New York in the '20s and helped Novelist Carl Van Vechten discover Harlem. In the '30s his book on Bali started a vogue that still persists. In his newest book, Mexico South: the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Knopf; $7.50...
Jack-of-all-Cultures. With a popular caricaturist's quick, sure eye for the new and bright, Covarrubias is drawn irresistibly to exotic cultures. His special interest is what he calls "transculturation"-the effect of one culture on another. In Bali he saw an ancient culture untouched by the...
Miguel Covarrubias is one of Mexico City's busiest men. Besides studying Chinese, he is working on an ambitious work on pre-Columbian art in the Western Hemisphere (to be finished by 1948), and teaching Indian arts at the National School of Anthropology. He is preparing an illustrated edition...
Vogue ran far ahead of this chill and modest ambition. Throughout the '20s and '30s, in its pages Nast decided what made fashion-sense in the welter of Parisian, New York and Hollywood ideas, about everything from decor to dogs. The Dest-dressed women in all U.S. towns...
The era of Marxist revolutionary murals on which Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros rode to fame has pretty well petered out today, but the art of easel painting is running full blast. A flourishing group of some 40 able painters, including Abstractionists Carlos Orozco Romero and Carlos Merida, splashily realistic Jesus...