Corrientes del Pacífico / Miguel Covarrubias.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Covarrubias, Miguel, 1904-1957, artist.

Contributor:

Pacific House, San Francisco, host institution.

Conference Name:

Golden Gate International Exposition : (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.). host institution.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Golden Gate International Exposition : (1939-1940 : San Francisco, Calif.).

Golden Gate International Exposition :.

Ethnology--Pacific Area--Pictorial works.

Ethnology.

Mural painting and decoration--California--San Francisco.

Mural painting and decoration.

Physical Description:

148 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm + six folded maps (60 x 96 cm) and one notebook.

Other Title:

Covarrubias

Place of Publication:

Ciudad de México : Alias, 2023.

Summary:

In the late 1930s, José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud (S2El Chamaco (S3 (Mexico, 1904 - 1957) He was commissioned to create a series of murals in the now extinct building Pacific House, during the Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) (1939 and 1940), held at San Francisco's Treasure Island. Each mural in the set, which he titled (S2Pageant of the Pacific (S3, it describes, in the form of maps, an aspect of life in the cultures surrounding the Pacific Ocean: peoples, flora and fauna, economy, housing, means of transport and artistic manifestations. Covarrubias managed to hybridize anthropology and caricature, in a project that was definitely didactic and fun, in a context in which the world map continued to change, day by day. Covarrubias himself wrote a detailed description of each mural, its codes and its intentions, trying to make explicit the reasons for using one color or another for each region, the selection of the references represented in each of them, as well as his own vision of art. This text was included in a folder reproducing the murals, a kind of atlas published by Pacific House in 1940, and which is now being recovered by Alias in this edition with a prologue by Abraham Cruzvillegas, that reproduces the works in large format and in color, with a design based on the original publication.

Notes:

Includes facsimile reproductions of the six mural-maps by Miguel Covarrubias and originally exhibited at the San Francisco International Exposition of 1935. Maps: plate 1. Peoples of the Pacific; plate 2. The fauna and flora of the Pacific; plate 3. Art forms of the Pacific area; plate 4. Economy of the Pacific; plate 5. Native dwellings of the Pacific area; plate 6. Native means of transportation in the Pacific area.

ISBN:

9786077985402

6077985406

OCLC:

1428673106