Tom Lea’s Toros Bravos

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  • Adair Margo Tom Lea Institute

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Tom Lea

Resumo

In the world of art and literature, Tom Lea holds a remarkable place. Rarely is an artist who looks at the world to record it in drawing or painting, also able to listen to the world to describe it in words. Tom Lea did both. He mastered the tools of an artist, whether with a piece of charcoal, pen or brush in his hand. He also mastered the written word, teaching himself to say exactly what he meant with vivid expression.

These two different talents came together in his first illustrated novel, The Brave Bulls, published in 1948. Placed on the New York Times best seller list and translated into ten foreign editions, the book introduced its protagonist, Luis Bello, and his life as a Mexican matador to the rest of the world. The novel was turned into a Hollywood movie starring Mel Ferrer and the Czechoslovakian-born Mexican film actress Miroslava, which premiered at the Plaza Theater in El Paso, Texas in 1951.

Biografia do Autor

Adair Margo, Tom Lea Institute

Adair Margo, has a Master in Arts history at New Mexico State University. She is the President of the Tom Lea Institute and currently the First Lady of El Paso, Texas. Her work includes the award-winning Tom Lea, An Oral History (Texas Western Press); Tom Lea (Life Magazine); World War II (Tom Lea Institute); Jose Cisneros, Immigrant Artist (Texas Western Press) and La Misión de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in the book El que quiera azul celeste… Experiencias del turista en la era global.  She is currently working on a book about Lydia Patterson Institute.

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Publicado

2019-11-08