close okay yeah so it seems perfect to start the day by thanking the organizers
menorah paintings grant Angeles math
scenes dozens of vases groups events
bright Bible colors monthly many reds
and in fact red flags along the third
wall scaffolds on the scaffold forks a
man tall healthy strong calm initially
and his footing on the scapula
no less than multiples of Russia is in
one hand and working with the other this
is the equal Rivera the famous Mexican
each other's name became especially
about home several years ago who the
create incidentally Rockefeller Center
in New York where a freshly painted
mural is scraped off because Lenin was
in something is an article that appeared
in a Danish newspaper and we'll saw late
in the summer of 1935 and sought there
was a pioneer a secular Jewish education
a nineteen thirties Poland and then this
apron question was associated with an
influential political party socialism or
nationalism but this visitor because it
was likely won't stop within the larger
North American tour and to response
principle system in Poland they also had
another agenda to occur in interview
with Pharaoh his chance finally came in
Mexico's National Palace with monumental
it will pay that government economy
which it then
since 1929 was nearing completion here
the traveler from Warsaw was invited to
ascend the scaffold to speak with the
artist as he worked on the wall you see
here their exchange being an in Russian
which read our first picked up in his
Paris years which he never spoke
especially law the Vulcan English are
you focusing on the painters work in
relation to his path and communism and
to the politics of the
post-revolutionary Mexican government
perceived in Spanish and get when he
came from interpreter this role was
played by needs operating there engaged
poet from Poland who had resided in
Mexico City in more than a decade just
months earlier than in there and it
facilitated the sumo encounter for any
this journalist is named from New York a
contributor to the most popular English
daily of the United States to grow these
socialist corvex or forward the second
journalist tagged along and visit
chairguy response to do an historic
neighborhood of synoptic where Berliner
was to sit for this portrait the to be
destroyers nothing so stranded by
torrential downpour and so we can guess
in an intimate and confident the Rivera
has founded on the family's commercial
routes and more indelicately his own
long-standing affinity commissioner what
I want to suggest you is not the
substance of these carelessly encounters
or intriguing but the fact that it is a
local initiative that we use between
Rivera or perhaps a version of Mexico
City in the social content and
progressive image newspaper audiences
and we're pulling in the United States
this is the mimetic of a broader
cultural circuit defined by contact
between Mexican guineas poetry a Mexican
visual art that I would like discussion
today one that misses non-discrimination
in 1936 that years from the publication
of collections in English poetry in
Mexico City each featuring work
contributed by revolutionary Mexican
artists and gets up their dinners after
the corporate energy a month ago
you then have already begun work on the
series
included in the post from collosum city
hypothesis this is a collection of poems
it extends a widespread tendency in
intro English poetry that of urban
social return to Mexico City or rounding
the lives of the destitute and
marginalized anywhere lesser known that
the city of palaces is a smaller
collection fun and include the sean
hannity's index enticing diners in blood
Spain 1936 an uptick plus this the
senior glances 1986 book clip intense a
series of started revolutionary moments
in solidarity there's a cover designed
by various toxic the founding member of
Mexico's and even revolutionary writers
and artists or they are both politically
collections of women's attention and
I'll be happy to further discuss other
work in this reception but he's only the
most conspicuous artifacts the more
extensive process across cultural and
cross regional mediation dimensions as
didn't even know after a decade of armed
conflict in Mexico
its capital emerged in the 19th
foreigners and Mexican nationals who
returned from extended
see something they also know the arrival
of Jewish immigrants to Mexico from
Europe reachable numbers began during
the same years spurred by the risk of in
who has some information majors in post
in 1924 before long she would also join
me Rome this racial and national groups
borrowed from immigration to Mexico but
in the meantime six to nine thousand
Jews from Eastern Europe arrived
throughout the nineteen twenties with
several thousand more to follow
the next day the two-thirds of these
movements who settled in the capital
tended to residence in Mexico as a
temporary measure among writers saw our
engagement with the post-revolutionary
mass and cultural scene in which the
national myths of a nice Polixenes
operating and gamba class who arrived
we're accustomed to being right in the
midst of intuition general culture life
if former cities of politics agree upon
arrival to Mexico City they've got
themselves an emotional position
networks in Eastern Europe and utterly
invisible to the Virgin Mary in her life
centered in New York but most
immediately they were also on the
culture these overlapping margins
complimentary the pieces of an elective
affinity between these nutrient poets
and members of Mexican verified by the
conventions of 1925 when I'm coming so
be a poet lovingly Mayakovsky visited
Mexico City despite considerable
enthusiasm for the visit of the party
invited artists and intellectuals
virtually not that appreciable knowledge
of Russian and therefore access to my
cousin's work which had not been
translated into Spanish are forgiven
Arab who is Mexico's leading communist
artists receive the Soviet guests on his
arrival City the only Ally was with
comprehending this is Easter ham Jewish
immigrants literary inflation only
monster for my cousin's visit nothing
wants it left
Philadelphia Phillies making me on the
board became one of the most recent news
August in Mexico City at this time
Russian remain concepts primary medium
of creativity in a position to engage
the Soviet visitor with when we walked
on language site in Russian poems into
the city limit or something later
within the year to the same shared
aesthetic and illegal tendencies that
brought us individually into contact
with my cock scheme then they're asked
across as well little bit about this
initial creative interaction in this
document but we were too syllogism and a
Jewish identification surely played a
role no less than its proximity to the
Russian Revolution and his legacy began
publication in 1927 this abstraction
prosthetics through the original
dialogue with contemporary history that
these publications a dozen times the
aspiration of belongingness editorial
team including boxing billionaire to the
cities the judo folded after the second
issue of personal gain access to the US
for the that we develop its after
wrangling there was no video games in
Mexico or even among Jews
na Warsaw New York and to media centers
a notorious culture with happening
especially with poets and the palms a
policeman journals abroad who belong to
be defined by Mexican teams if this was
an extension in each cultural context
for this model the lyric vision of
Mexico
Thompson Berliner is very good one
who probably was in cityscapes and world
sees populated by machine so indigenous
Eggers prostitutes vendors peasants with
such big ears necessarily appear
attractive for a European we would raise
objects they also this weekly further
Asian art culture in April and May 1934
this was this concept of the dramatic
conclusion and Rockefeller Center put me
where is internationally publicized work
across the United States when you may be
seen as the lung condition and currency
of boxes cause the Balkan question
belongs to the larger series that a
mexicana Layton
Mexican canvases in Mission a team of a
Mexican visual art history past this
newest verse but it suggests that the
set of five poems you seen here for
example published in April Inc included
four forms of narrative assemblage like
the mineral these poems united under the
heading mexican motifs present a vision
of contemporary Mexico refracted from
history revolutionary American
imperialism the first part of the series
spoken gallant Indian people
construction and receive it is not
indigenous per se but an indigenous
leader of the Mexico here to ruin is
history of Spanish and specifically
Christian excoriation
this is under story by the Spaniards all
the domes that honestly concludes on
those of non-catholics in the throat
that means kind of purity the poor
mostly realizes the abject figure I'm
for revolt performance a militant
solidarity then x2 palms in the series
he's typing
Manchester fury and rage don't know
their name in your long city
similarly reach from the present to the
past elaborating the perspective that
reads the social conditions in cityscape
contemporary Mexico City the legacy of
the initial stanzas of like dried
branches your fury establish a state
forbidden equality defined by avenues
rights completely Kappa Watson's
weakness does weaken gamefish not not
reach the right palaces brothels
calories Eagles in so many inky magnets
the Golden Path is called that
associatively
as the sound of drums and ridiculous
emanating from that room Central America
forced labor by the sweet Papa wanted to
encompass the doors secure racial
description which means the psychical
conquest by American corporate interests
impression main force Kalinin davinia
Odyssey the series of wine steadily
British and French diplomatic resources
the final poem in this series the terms
to be awkwardly revolutionary posture of
the first this announcement ablution on
their both save for a generalization of
agencies both qui tam thirsty children
of people innocent lives the chaotic
situation rendered by the comment box
contextual includes the stylistic
features derived from Russian poetry
associated easily both Mexico's his
revolution the boiling over of
generational rage expressed with
grenades alongside rifles and machetes
at the hands of Thomas Kane mestizos was
no explicit target but we have secured
alongside the preceding poems requires
none the brezza space is established
which one applies under two syllables
and graphically reinforced with a series
of patients their court right of right
be a bluetick Shia Sunni Sunni minute
please
the horn blares free the Lambs it's over
to me Sonny Reds and meet their routine
meticulous connection to the racial
historical specificity of Mexico
emphasized the previous columns through
bolts and its lack of significant
context in eventual devolution and
agreement and garish slogans appears to
reach tortoise Oh Englishman versality
then they thought particular appeal to
the progressive leadership of the German
language appeared which was a subsidiary
start this talk 1/4 weight in its
alignment with Mexican revolutionary
parts of Poland completed peasants
published month after the series just
described and bearing the sub heading to
the Eligius came from America this
Punk's us worth the composite of the
very rural neighbors that populate the
various work kappa leaving the
typography which they're here and the
forms of labor Aryan same age not all
the figures settings and implements
containment at home may be holding the
artists murals in his illustrations
publications in publications the poem
opens in a sculpture he didn't live in
wetlands fields and mines a disciple he
knows
procession of sculptural peasants with
necks of Steel arms of a cable clamp
like hands they were with accident
singleness amorous violence and violence
packs the bonds setting of the grabbing
will into the extruder or compression
also suggested
which the peasants expect either its
resources or the time also that goodness
use of harsh consonants the slicin
mid-surface approximately between both
in the shop breaking up the closet
flameless with swim class problem the
deafness the false final money seems to
me when these speakers are kind for
marketing service a new age action to
this moment is the comparative abundance
the Spanish term is employer than the
preceding series in order to see what if
that can be accents of such a play the
sensationalistic
tournaments even as the racial
specificity is repeatedly emphasized
their labor and Russian polish or
Ukrainian vision with poems like the
ones I've discussed and I would want to
be visual art specifically or more often
mystically nugget once and without ever
leaving Mexico position limits
visibility in this trajectory was very
much to the Mexico City but even World
War two both oats would cease to publish
were explicitly informed by their new
context of exile communication this
wasn't the end of the cultural circuit
by online code that games leader in the
1950s and 1960s they would find a new
inverted like a big box still firmly
embedded in Mexico City
artsy broad traditions from Europe into
Spanish American poetry translation
