| Oct. 1st, 2009 @ 06:23 pm Dancing Alone in Mexico plus a few others |
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Butler, Ron. 2000. Dancing Alone in Mexico: From the Border to Baja and Beyond. Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press.
catalogue of Mexico by an American man whose wife divorces him and moves to Mexico.
"Guanajuato is a marvelous old Spanish colonial city in the heart of central Mexico - marvelous in its sense of history, its brooding Moorish architecture, its precarious grace. It hangs on the slopes of a deep rugged canyon, as if ready to tumble at any moment into a pile of tireless rubble.
Gone in such an unfortunate event would be the University of Guanajuato, one of Mexico's finest schools of theatre and music. Gone would be the glittering, ornate Teatro Juarez with its stately columns and rococo interior, upon whose teage have appeared Loenoard Berstein, the Bolshoi Ballet, and Enrico Caruso. Gone would bte the Don Quixiote Museum and the handsome two-story home of Calle Positos where artist Diego Rivera was born on December 8, 1886." 60
*Mummies of Guanajuato film - cult status.
Standish, Peter. 2009. The States of Mexico: A Reference Guide to History and Culture. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
*legacy of ceramic work, of "coffee colored clay decorated with pastel colors, or of a creamier colored shiny chlay, some of it brightly painted. The antrhopormophic pottery that survies suggests that these people wore such things as belts, sandals, jewelr, and headdresses." 142
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - independence movemebtn from Spain. teacher that set up craft and literacy workshops.
artists: Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras, Hermenegildo Bustos, Diego Rivera,
poets?: Agustin Lanuza, Efren Hernandez, Efrain Huerta,
Pedro Garcia,
Maria Grever - Maria Asuncion de la Portilla y Torres - 800 bolero songs.
The Natalie Wood COllection of Pre-Columboa Ceramics from Cupicuaro, Guanajuato Mexico at UCLA. Monograph - Studies by Murial Porter Weaver. Ed. Jay D,. Frierman. UCLA - Museum and Lab of Ethnic arts and technology. 1969
*tombs found in mid-1920s, Chupicuaro in Rio Lerma valley. volcanoes, hilly, rainfall, fertile. flourishing cultures.
*burnishing, polychrome - black and red, etc.
*figurines tell us about people |
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