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Casa Manana

The Morrow Collection of Mexican Popular Arts

Casa Manana( )
Editor: Danly, Susan
Introduction by: Stavans, Ilan
ISBN:978-0-8263-2805-2
Publication Date:Jan 2002
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

Provides a detailed look at the political and artistic climate in Mexican-American relations through an examination of the folk art collection amassed by Dwight and Elizabeth Morrow when he was U.S. ambassador to Mexico in the late 1920s.

Book Details
Pages:213
Detailed Subjects: Education / Schools / Levels / Higher
Art / Folk & Outsider Art
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8.5 x 11 x 0.98 Inches
Book Weight:2.508 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Ilan Stavans (born Ilan Stavchansky on April 7, 1961, in Mexico City) is a Mexican-American, essayist. He is the author of "The Hispanic Condition", "The Riddle of Cantinflas", and "The One-Handed Pianist & Other Stories" as well as the editor of "The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories" and a dictionary of Spanglish, among other volumes. He has been a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Latino Literature Prize, among other honors. He teaches at Amherst College.

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