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En busca de un muro

Title
En busca de un muro / un proyecto = a project by Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio.
Publication
Ciudad de México : Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes : Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, 2018.

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Additional Authors
  • Orozco, José Clemente, 1883-1949.
  • Reed, Alma M.
  • Ortiz Monasterio, Rodrigo
  • Museo Rufino Tamayo, host institution. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his
Description
152 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, music, portraits; 25 cm +
Summary
The book "En Busca de un Muro" (In Search of a Wall) takes as starting point José Clemente Orozco's stay in New York and his search for a mural. After his arrival to this city, the muralist accompanied the historian Alma Reed to a party in Eva Palmer's apartment at the seventh story of number 12 in 5th Avenue. At the party, Orozco met the peculiar group of intellectuals that composed the secret society "Delphic Circle" for the first time. The editorial project is an account of the ideological and personal connections that developed around the so-called Delphic Circle in New York, between 1927 and 1934, and the impact that various ideological movements, such as occultism, esotericism and Greek ideologies, had on the thinking and practice of diverse artists, anthropologists, journalists, architects and intellectuals. In addition to an extensive essay written by the curator and editor of the project, Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio, the publication recovers texts of the time on the importance of the Oracle and the Fourth Dimension (in an essay by the architect Claude Bragdon), the journalistic expeditions of Alma Reed to Yucatan (originally published in The New York Times and presented as a facsimile) and her relationship with the then governor of Yucatan, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, narrated in a chronicle by the journalist H. Allen Smith.
Series Statement
Museos y galerías
Uniform Title
  • En busca de un muro.
  • En busca de un muro. English.
  • Museos y galerías.
Subjects
Note
  • Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, April 21 - July 8, 2018.
  • Facsimile of "The waiting ghosts of the Maya" (1 page), folded and inserted between pages [108]-[109].
  • Facsimile of "Waiting on the Maya ghosts" (1 page), folded and inserted between pages 98-[99].
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • In Spanish and English.
Contents
Episodios de una historia no escrita = Episodes from unwritten story / Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio -- Peregrina y don Quijote = Peregrina and don Quixote / Allen Smith -- En espera de los espíritus mayas = Waiting on the Maya ghosts / Alma Reed -- Los espíritus mayas a la espera = The waiting ghosts of the Maya / Alma Reed -- Oráculo, escritura automática = Oracle, automatic writing / Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio -- Oráculo = Oracle / Claude Bragdon -- Archivo.
ISBN
  • 9786076055335
  • 6076055332
OCLC
  • on1053630393
  • 1053630393
  • SCSB-9160134
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries