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Artists, Intellectuals and Revolution: Recent Books on Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

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1 Rodrígucz, Antonio, A History of Mexican Mural Painting (London, Thames & Hudson, 1969)Google Scholar. Translated from the Spanish and German by Corby, Marina. Illustrated. Pp. 518. £8.40.Google Scholar

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4 I am examining this, together with other questions such as the overlapping of elites, in a forthcoming study of culture and society in Mexico since 1910.

5 An interesting study of the cinema is Blanco, Jorge Ayala, La Aventura del Cine Mexicano (Mexico, Ediciones Era, 1968).Google Scholar

6 This story has been recently told by Geduld, Harry M. and Gottesman, Ronald S., Sergei Eisenstein and Upton Sinclair: the making and the unmaking of Que Viva México (London, 1970)Google Scholar. Buñuel has perhaps been the most important influence.

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13 There are very few studies of professional groups. Professer Cockcroft has opened the way for the key primary school teachers with his article ‘El Maestro de Primaria en la Revolución Mexicana’, Historia Mexicana, XVI (1966–1967). See also Raby, D., ‘Los Maestros Rurales y los Conflictos Sociales en Mexico, 1931–1940’, Historia Mexicana, 18 (1968)Google Scholar, and also his Rural Teachers and Social and Political Conflict in Mexico, 1921–1940, with special reference to the States of Michoacán and Campeche (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Warwick, 1970).Google Scholar

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