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Mexican wonderkid Miguel Covarrubias, at the age of eighteen, became the best cartoonist in the world when, freshly arrived from 1920's Mexico, he took New York City by surprise with his wonderful cubist style for caricature. Alfred A. Knopf took him under his wing, and soon enough Vanity Fair and The New Yorker were hat in hand asking him to join their pages. Peter Arno and Al Hirschfeld considered him the greatest influence over their work, and the Jazz Age found his definitive graphic artist after his sultry posters for The Cotton Club. A Renaissance man, Covarrubias expanded his talents to ethnology, archeology, scenography, ballet and muralism. After WWII, he returned to Mexico to indulge in these new passions fulltime, thus ending his meteoric career in the States. He died shortly after, in 1957, at the age of 53. In 1984, The Smithsonian held a wonderful retrospective on him in Washington D.C.; and in 2004, his centennial, a National Homage was staged in Mexico City. This book is the catalogue from that exhibit.

Today Covarrubias, though not widely known, remains a household name and a top act to follow among art critics and illustrators circles. Get this book and see why.