Your Mexican Holiday : A Modern Guide ... Revised Edition with Complete Motor Maps
- SIGNED Cloth
- New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935
New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. xii, [2], 3-374 pp + notes section [blank] + 10 leaves of photographs. 8 x 5 1/4 inches. Publisher's orange cloth with pictorial dust jacket. Lower corners bumped, binding slightly bent. Pictorial dust jacket with fraying at the corners and head/tail spine. Overall light soiling to the dj. Original dj price $2.50 present. A nicer copy than usually found, and difficult to find in the dust jacket. Cloth. The first edition was published in 1932. This is the revised edition from 1935, "Compiled with the active cooperation of the Mexican authorities and bureaus..." "[This] is a guide planned like a menu. You can gorge yourself on ancient ruins, with scenery for desert; or you can have a rich portion of colonial architecture, with series of Indian festivals for a side-dish....In a way [this guide] is intended to play the part of a friend whose tastes are similar to your own but whose knowledge of Mexico is adequate and sympathetic. Such a friend would not take you to places which would bore and fatigue you, nor would he insist on retailing masses of irrelevant and minute information. This guide is not a Baedeker. Much has been omitted and much condensed, as it is written for the eclectic traveler whose time is not limitless and whose interest is somewhat determined by the accessibility of his destinations.." (from the foreword)
"Anita Brenner (born Hanna Brenner; 13 August 1905 – 1 December 1974) was a transnational Jewish scholar and intellectual, who wrote extensively in English about the art, culture, and history of Mexico. She was born in Mexico, and raised and educated in the United States. She returned to Mexico in the 1920s following the Mexican Revolution. She coined the term 'Mexican Renaissance',"to describe the cultural florescence [that] emerged from the revolution." As a child of immigrants, Brenner's heritage caused her to experience both antisemitism and acceptance. Fleeing discrimination in Texas, she found mentors and colleagues among the European Jewish diaspora living in both Mexico and New York, but Mexico, not the US or Europe, held her loyalty and enduring interest. She was part of the post-Revolutionary art movement known for its indigenista ideology.
Brenner earned a PhD in anthropology at Columbia University and her first book, Idols Behind Altars was the first book to document the artworks, styles and artists of Mexico from Prehistory through the 1920s. It was widely considered her most important work and was filled with photographs by renowned photographers and interviews with the most influential and prolific artists of the period. Her fourth published book was The Wind That Swept Mexico; The History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942, having in between printed a guidebook and a children's story. The first book to give a complete account in either English or Spanish on the Mexican Revolution, it was the first to retell the events from a Mexican perspective...in 1930, Brenner submitted her PhD dissertation in anthropology on the ancient site of Colhuacan. After her successful defense of her thesis, she completed her degree and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1930 to study the geographical extent of Aztec art in Mexico and at various museums in Europe. In her travels throughout Europe, she wrote articles for The New York Times and served as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War. Brenner's travels through Mexico with the fellowship resulted in a travel book entitled Your Mexican Holiday which was published in 1932. " (Wikipedia).
"Anita Brenner (born Hanna Brenner; 13 August 1905 – 1 December 1974) was a transnational Jewish scholar and intellectual, who wrote extensively in English about the art, culture, and history of Mexico. She was born in Mexico, and raised and educated in the United States. She returned to Mexico in the 1920s following the Mexican Revolution. She coined the term 'Mexican Renaissance',"to describe the cultural florescence [that] emerged from the revolution." As a child of immigrants, Brenner's heritage caused her to experience both antisemitism and acceptance. Fleeing discrimination in Texas, she found mentors and colleagues among the European Jewish diaspora living in both Mexico and New York, but Mexico, not the US or Europe, held her loyalty and enduring interest. She was part of the post-Revolutionary art movement known for its indigenista ideology.
Brenner earned a PhD in anthropology at Columbia University and her first book, Idols Behind Altars was the first book to document the artworks, styles and artists of Mexico from Prehistory through the 1920s. It was widely considered her most important work and was filled with photographs by renowned photographers and interviews with the most influential and prolific artists of the period. Her fourth published book was The Wind That Swept Mexico; The History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1942, having in between printed a guidebook and a children's story. The first book to give a complete account in either English or Spanish on the Mexican Revolution, it was the first to retell the events from a Mexican perspective...in 1930, Brenner submitted her PhD dissertation in anthropology on the ancient site of Colhuacan. After her successful defense of her thesis, she completed her degree and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1930 to study the geographical extent of Aztec art in Mexico and at various museums in Europe. In her travels throughout Europe, she wrote articles for The New York Times and served as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War. Brenner's travels through Mexico with the fellowship resulted in a travel book entitled Your Mexican Holiday which was published in 1932. " (Wikipedia).