Adolfo Best-Maugard
Subtitle: la espiral el arte
By: textos, Arturo López Rodríguez [and four others]
Contributors: Centro Cultural Jardín Borda (Cuernavaca, Mexico); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico); Morelos (Mexico : State). Secretaría de Cultura; Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (Mexico)
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Museos y galerias; Museos y galerías
Publisher: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; Instituto de Cultura de Morelos
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Ciudad de México; Cuernavaca, Morelos
Language: spa
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9786079358396; 9786076053935
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions; Painters; Biography; Mexican Art; History
Description: Retrospective that examines the artistic production of painter Adolfo Best Maugard (b. Mexico 1891-d. Athens, Greece  1964) in all its creative stages, from his early modern creations, his incursion in cinema and the theatre, his creation of scenery in historical events, to the influence of his method of drawing in Mexican artists. The edition features works of the artist, as well as some of his Mexican contemporaries of the first half of the 20th century such as Dr. Atl, Armando García Núñez, Diego Rivera, Roberto Montenegro, Olga Costao and Miguel Covarrubias amongst others. The texts also address his work in the film industry during the first years of the 1930's, where, among other things, he was counselor and censor of the feature film "Que viva Mexico!" directed by cineaste Sergei Eisenstein.
Notes: At head of title: Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Centro Cultural Jardín Borda.

Includes chronology (pages 353-368).

Published on the ocasion of the exhibitions held Sep. 8 - Dec. 4, 2016 at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and from Aug. 25 - Nov. 28, 2016 at the Centro Cultural Jardin Borda in Cuernavaca, Morelos in Mexico.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preliminares / Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, María Cristina García Cepeda, Graco Ramírez Abreu, Cristina Faesler Bremer, Miguel Fernández Félix y José García Valtierra; title: Un caballo educado / Salomon Grimberg; title: La influencia de Best Maugard en el arte y la estética de Katherine Anne Porter / Ruth M. Álvarez; title: El sentimiento mexicano y el hecho anterior de usar siete motivos fundamentales y de no cruzarlos jamás / Marina Vázquez Ramos; title: Censor y asesor de Sergei M. Eisenstein / Aurelio de los Reyes; title: Adolfo Best Maugard. La espiral del arte / Arturo López Rodríguez; title: Textos de época; title: Cronología; title: Apéndice.