Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Libertad (The Dawn of. Liberty), a twelve-page weekly in Taos (pop. 1,815), whose delirious typography and dissonant trio of editorial voices more often suggest the dawn of anarchy. Fondly known to its 2,505 subscribers as "El Creeps," the paper was started in 1835 by a Mexican priest. Today it still has an unusual publisher-editor: wealthy Bostonian Edward Clark Cabot...
...interested in your July 29 story on Artist Fretwell's Holy Family in modern dress and Reader Afton Wynn's later comments on primitive paintings of the Madonna (with an Indian face) on the walls of Mexican churches. Why shouldn't a Christ, a Madonna or angels look like Indians or Negroes, or whatever? Great medieval artists represented members of the Holy Family in clothes of the artist's own period. Christ can appear in all shapes...
...sample of Mexican religious art-an Indian angel in Tonantzintla, Puebla...
...shocked with English Artist Fretwell's Holy Family in modern dress [July 29] nearly so much as I was surprised at seeing paintings of the Madonna, with an Indian face, on the walls of Mexican churches. If Mary can have an Indian face in Mexico. I don't see why England can't have her with a wind-blown haircut...
...laid in 19th-century Spain.) Rouben Ter-Arutunian has designed a handsome and versatile two-level residencia as well as a dazzling batch of costumes liberally provided with holsters and pistols. And Virgil Thomson has written some colorful incidental music, partly original and partly borrowed (e.g. "The Mexican Hat Dance...