Autor(es) Carlos Andrés Molina
Resumen:
Abstract: A note on the most successful art “diplomat” that Mexico has seen in the twentieth century. With the presence of Fernando Gamboa as supreme cultural bureaucrat, Mexican art became—in the 1950s—a medium and message to engage in a dialogue of universal pretensions with other countries. However, as a cultural leader, “Jefe” Gamboa operated differently in the subtle sphere of rhetoric and in the realpolitik of the museographic and cultural-administrative world. To contextualize this distinction, this article offers two anecdotes about how Gamboa “managed to do it”.