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  1. Avant-garde art & artists in Mexico : Anita Brenner's journals of the roaring twenties

    Brenner, Anita, 1905-1974
    1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2010.

    The Mexican Revolutionothat violent, inchoate, never-quite-complete break with the pastoopened a new era in Mexican art and letters now known as the "Mexican Renaissance." In Mexico City, a coterie of artists including Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco & David Alfaro Siqueiros explored how art could forward revolutionary idealsoand, in the process, spent countless hours talking, gossiping, arguing & partying. Into this milieu came Anita Brenner, in her early twenties already trying her hand as a journalist, art critic & anthropologist. Her journals of the period 1925 to 1930 vividly transport us to this vital moment in Mexico, when building a "new nation" was the goal. Brenner became a member of Rivera's inner circle & her journals provide fascinating portraits of its members, including Orozco, Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo & Jean Charlot, with whom she had an unusual loving relationship. She captures the major and minor players in the act of creating works for which they are now famous and records their comings and goings, alliances and feuds. Numerous images of their art brilliantly counterpoint her diary descriptions. Brenner also reveals her own maturation as a perceptive observer and writer who, at twenty-four, published her first book, Idols Behind Altars. Her initial plan for Idols included four hundred images taken by photographers Edward Weston and Tina Modotti. Many of these images, which were ultimately not included in Idols, are published here for the first time along with stunning portraits of Brenner herself. Setting the scene for the journal is well-known Mexican cultural critic Carlos Monsivais, who offers an illuminating discussion of the Mexican Renaissance and the circle around Diego Rivera.

  2. Idols behind altars

    Brenner, Anita, 1905-1974
    New York : Biblo and Tannen, 1967.

  3. Idols behind altars

    Brenner, Anita, 1905-1974
    [New York : Payson & Clarke ltd., 1929.

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