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Excerpt from Idols Behind Altars
If I were to thank in print and by name all the people to whom I am indebted for the materials of Idol: Behind Altar: I should have to begin with my nurse Serapia who told me what the comet before the revolution of 1910 signified, and I should have to include many dear friends whose middle names I have forgotten. However their valuable collaboration would have been less satisfactorily illustrated except for the sympathy and support of the former rector of the National University of Mexico, Dr. Alfonso Pruneda, who commissioned for the University an investigation of Mexican art, placing the author in charge. The two photographers who shared this commission, Edward Weston and Tina Modotti, are too well known and respected as masters of their craft to expect in Idol: Behind Altar: any acknowledgment less than deeply grateful, and artists about whom much of this book is written have been kind enough to sponsor it with interest and assistance.
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