The Covarrubias Circle: Nickolas Muray's Collection of Twentieth-Century Mexican Art

by Peter Mears

New 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 entr?e into Covarrubias's circle of fellow Mexican artists--Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, Juan Soriano, Fernando Castillo, Guillermo Meza, Roberto Montenegro,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292705883
• ISBN13: 9780292705883
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 10.1" x 14.4"