Oil, Art, And Politics. The Feminization of Mexico

Resumen

World War II and the new pan-American discourse of the United States, the New Deal and the political-cultural interests of the Rockefellers are sorne of the factors that explain how and why the 1940 Muscum Of Modern Art exhibition, Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art, offered an exotic and "ernasculated" image of Mexican art and, by extesion, of the Mexico of President Lázaro Cárdenas. The design of the catalogue, which is one of the central focuses of this article, permits a reconstruction of this political and cultural history.