Miguel Covarrubias |
| (1904 - 1957, Mexican) |
| Mexico, 1904 - 1957. During his first trip to Bali in 1930 under a Gughenheim Fellowship, he gathered materials for his Island of Bali which was published in 1937 and remains a classic to this day. He then became a good friend of Walter Spies. He was an international traveller and his works were reknown in the United States through magazine illustrations. He was also a professor of art history in the National School of Anthropology in Mexico City. |
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