Word: zapata
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rivera had his first taste of revolution in the Mexican revolt of 1910, when such folk heroes as Zapata and Pancho Villa swept the land with fantasy. The wave receded; Mexico slept again; Rivera went to Paris and for ten years labored at Cubism in Montparnasse. He found his true style on his return, in his great Mexican frescoes. First with a beautiful, pantherish model named Guadalupe Marin and later with pretty Frida Kahlo, Rivera lived an active revolutionary life until 1929, when the Communist Party expelled...
MEXICO AROUND ME - Max Miller - Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). Max Miller covers Mexico "from end to end twice and crosswise," finds it badly shopworn until he meets a peasant colonel who fought for ten years with Zapata...
TEMPEST OVER MEXICO?Rosa E. King ?Little, Brown ($3). Stilted but interesting reminiscences of the Zapata revolution, written by an Englishwoman who owned the largest hotel in Cuernavaca...