Word: tarascan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objects of various neglected periods proved to be even better bargains than contemporary pictures by little-known artists. Sample rates: a bronze reindeer from ancient Persia for $632.50, a 5,000-year-old "female divinity" from Sumer for $103.50, an ancient Egyptian bronze statuette of Anubis for $172.50, a Tarascan warrior for $200, a Coptic bone statuette for $28.75, Etruscan earrings for $189.75, and two highly stylized Spanish and Greek bronzes for $200 (left} and $402.50 (right...
California's Imperial Valley. At first his wife would not hear of it. "You're no peon, to work in the lettuce fields," she argued. But Serrano, a short, husky Tarascan Indian, overruled her. "Imagine!" he said. "They pay 80 American cents an hour, 130 pesos a day. We can get another cow or two. In time, a bull. Dresses for you and our daughters." His vision of himself as a bountiful provider grew, and he even talked of buying a farm...
...Mexico's greatest modern painters, old (70) Francisco Goitia, sat beside deathbeds to catch the last gasp of unwilling models. Diego Rivera sketched during all-night vigils in the Tarascan graves near Tzintzuntzan. And David Siqueiros was perhaps at his best when quartering and Duco-painting a heroic Cuauhtemoc in his death throes. Last week the U.S. got a good look at the work of a new Mexican artist, Jose Luis Cuevas, who sometimes plays truant from the embalmer's school of Mexican...
...wiry little Tarascan growing up in the mountains of Guerrero in Southwestern Mexico wanted nothing so much as to be a writer and historian. Though he seemed to be drifting when he entered medical school, it was there that he found his life work: "Heart study was my passion." Last week, celebrating the tenth anniversary of his Institute of Cardiology in Mexico City, Dr. Ignacio Chávez, 57, ducked his head modestly as topflight cardiologists from Latin America, the U.S. and Europe blew him compliments...