{"product_id":"the-covarrubias-circle-nickolas-murays-collection-of-twentiethcentury-mexican-art-harry-ransom-humanities-research-center-imprint-series","title":"The Covarrubias Circle: Nickolas Muray's Collection of Twentieth-Century Mexican Art (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York in the 1920s and 1930s was a modernist mecca that drew artists  writers  and other creators of culture from around the globe. Two such expatriates were Mexican artist and Renaissance man Miguel Covarrubias and Hungarian photographer Nickolas Muray. Their lifelong friendship gave Muray an entre into Covarrubiass circle of fellow Mexican artistsFrida Kahlo  Rufino Tamayo  Juan Soriano  Fernando Castillo  Guillermo Meza  Roberto Montenegro  and Rafael Navarrowhose works Muray collected. This outstanding body of Mexican modernist art  now owned by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC) at the University of Texas at Austin  forms the subject of this beautifully illustrated volume. Produced in conjunction with the Ransom Centers exhibition \"Miguel Covarrubias: A Certain Clairvoyance \" this volume contains color plates of virtually all the items in Nickolas Murays collection of twentieth-century Mexican art. The majority of the works are by Covarrubias  while the excellent works by the other artists reflect the range of aesthetic shifts and modernist influences of the period in Mexico. Accompanying the plates are five original essays that establish Covarrubiass importance as a modernist impresario as influential in his sphere as Ezra Pound  T. S. Eliot  and Jean Cocteau were in theirs. Likewise  the essays reestablish the significance of Nickolas Muray  whose success as a master of color photography  portraiture  advertising imagery  and commercial illustration has made him difficult to place within the history of photography as a fine art. As a whole  this publication of the Nickolas Muray Collection vividly illustrates the transgression of generic boundaries and the cross-fertilization among artists working in different media  from painting and photography to dance and ethnography  that gave modernism its freshness and energy. It also demonstrates that American modernism was thoroughly infused with a fervor for all things Mexican  of which Covarrubias was a principal proponent  and that Mexican modernists  no less than their American and European counterparts  answered Pounds call to \"make it new.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44948027998261,"sku":"ByrdShop_0292705883","price":226.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780292705883.jpg?v=1770034322","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-covarrubias-circle-nickolas-murays-collection-of-twentiethcentury-mexican-art-harry-ransom-humanities-research-center-imprint-series","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}