Miguel Covarrubias - Drawing a Cosmopolitan Line

This catalogue of an exhibition at the Georgia O¿Keeffe Museum broadens our understanding of twentieth-century modernism by exploring the prolific Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias¿s substantial contributions to a cosmopolitan sensibility in modernist art

List of contents

• Director's Note (Robert A. Kret)
• Foreword (Adriana Williams)
• Introduction (Carolyn Kastner)
• 1. Placing Miguel Covarrubias's Modernism: Mexico, New York, and Bali (Carolyn Kastner)
• 2. Miguel Covarrubias's World: Remaking Global Space at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition (Alicia Inez Guzmán)
• 3. Miguel Covarrubias and Twenty Centuries of Pre-Columbian Latin American Art, from the Olmec to the Inka (Khristaan D. Villela)
• 4. Transgressing Borders: Miguel Covarrubias and the Development of Native American Art History (Janet Catherine Berlo)
• Plates
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index

Summary

This catalogue of an exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum broadens our understanding of twentieth-century modernism by exploring the prolific Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias’s substantial contributions to a cosmopolitan sensibility in modernist art

Product details

• Authors: Janet Catherine Berlo, Georgia O&apos, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Georgia O''keeffe Museum, Carolyn (E Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (COR)/ Kastner, Alicia Inez Guzman, Alicia Inez Guzmán, Carolyn (E Keeffe Museum (COR)/ Kastner, Khristaan D Villela, Khristaan D. Villela
• Assisted by: Carolyn Kastner (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2014
• EAN: 9780292760486
• ISBN: 978-0-292-76048-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 230 mm x 313 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art