dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
verfasserin/verfasser: Karen Cordero Reiman (Hg.)
titel: Another promised land : Anita Brenner's Mexico
isbn: 9780998669304
+: Los Angeles : Skirball Cultural Center 2017
«In comparison to [Meyer] Schapiro, Brenner was substantially more attracted to social realism and figuration. Her aim was certainly oriented more toward introducing artists to a broad public than Schapiro's. Yet she was also interested in abstract art, as is evident in ther close relationship with and promotion of European émigré artits in Mexico, like Mathias Goeritz, Myra Landau, and Vlady. Whe promoted the innovative work of mid-twentieth-century painter and sculptor Pedro Coronel, influenced by the Mexican muralists and part of the so-called Generación de la Ruptura. She even developed a close friendship with Henry Moore during his visit to Mexico. Brenner wrote articles on European and US modern art, often abstract, for newspapers like the New York Times Magazine and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, although her focus was clearly journalistic – rather than academic, as was the case Schapiro. Nevertheless, for better or worse she is better known as a merketer of Mexican social realism.» (p. 33)