Alfonso Reyes y los territorios del arte / [textos de Fernando Curiel, Raquel Tibol].

1. ed.

México, D.F. : Museo Nacional de Arte : Fundación Villacero : Editorial RM, 2010.

xv, 211 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held in 2009 at the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico City.

Poet, essayist, fabulist, playwright, scholar, diplomat, and art critic, Alfonso Reyes was one of the most comprehensive humanists in the Spanish-speaking world and a central figure in the literary and cultural history of Latin America. This book gathers together everything Reyes wrote on the subject of art, drawing on a wide selection of essays, articles, poems, and stories. From his vast oeuvre, it collects valuable moments of contemplation devoted to Goya, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Velázquez, Bosch, Rembrandt, and El Greco, as well as evocations of Zuloaga, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso, and other painters whom Reyes appreciated during his diplomatic service in Paris and Madrid from 1913 on. This book opens a panorama extending from the advent of the modern spirit in the creations of the end of the nineteenth century to the emergence of new currents and styles in the twentieth century. It follows an artistic itinerary that also includes the articles Reyes published in the Spanish press about cinema, yet another of his many passions.

Spanish

February 01, 2012