Katherine Anne Porter (158 page)

Authors: Katherine Anne Porter,Darlene Harbour Unrue

983.37
Nous. . . Gasconne!”
] “We are the children of Gascogne!”, a French song of resistance of the Hundred Years War (1337–1453).

988.4
Miss Brenner] Anita Brenner (1905–1974), born in Mexico and raised and educated in the United States, wrote several books and many essays on Mexican art, culture, and history.

988.10–11
Tina. . . Weston] Tina Modotti (1876–1942), Italian actress, political activist, and photographer, met Edward Henry Weston (1886–1958) in 1918 and became his favorite model as well as his lover.

988.30–31
Syndicate. . . Sculptors] Guild of muralists, led by Diego Rivera.

990.9
Siquieros] David Alfaro Siquieros (1896–1974), Mexican muralist.

990.13
Jean Charlot] Charlot (1898–1976), French painter and muralist who spent most of his working life in Mexico.

990.14
Merida] Muralist Carlos Mérida (1891–1984), one of the founders of the Syndicate.

990.15
Dr. Atl] Mexican nature artist Gerardo Murillo (1876–1964) called himself “Dr. Atl” to signify his sympathy with the indigenest movement.

990.30–31
Orozco. . . Abraham Angel] José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949), Mexican muralist; Abraham Ángel, Mexican painter (1905–1924) celebrated for his primitive style.

990.33
Xavier Guerrero] Painter and engraver (1896–1974); co-founder, with Siquieros, of
El Machete
, the official organ of the Syndicate.

993.7
Academy] The Academy of San Carlos, founded in 1785 in Mexico City.

995.23
Preparatoria] Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (National Preparatory School) in Mexico City, where Diego Rivera and other artists were commissioned in 1921 by José Vasconcelos, then minister of education, to decorate the schools; marked the beginning of the Mural movement.

997.19
Carmen] Title character of the opera
Carmen
(1875) by Georges Bizet (1838–1875).

998.4
Mr. Morrow’s town] Dwight W. Morrow (1873–1931), American ambassador to Mexico in 1927–30, built a weekend house in Cuernavaca and filled it with Mexican artifacts.

1000.4
Carleton Beals] Beals (1893–1945), Latin American correspondent for
The Nation
and author of dozens of works on revolution in Mexico and Central America.

1004.26
Archbishop Pascual Diaz] Pascual Díaz y Barreto (1876–1936), Archbishop of Mexico City in 1929–36, was often at odds with anticlerical Mexican administrations.

1007.6
1894] Porter, given to falsifying her age, was born in 1890, not 1894.

1010.1
The Land That Is Nowhere
] See the
Tao Te Ching
by Lao Tzu (sixth century
B.C.
): “The long journey ends at the land that is Nowhere, that is the true home.”

1010.3
a certain critic] Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989).

1010.8–9
newspaper. . . prints] Cowley referred to Porter’s early career as a “writer for several newspapers” in the second edition of his memoir
Exile‘s Return
(1934; revised 1951).

1011.15
Natalie Scott] Natalie Vivian Scott (1890–1957), American journalist, playwright, social worker, and university professor, was part of the artists’ colony in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the 1920s and of the expatriate colony in Mexico in the 1930s.

1011.16–17
William Spratling] American professor and silversmith (1900–1967) who copied pre-Colombian designs.

1011.24
Janice Biala] Polish-born American painter (1903–2000) who lived with Ford in the 1930s in France and the United States.

1013.24–27
E. M. . . . idea’.”] See “Joseph Conrad: A Note” (1920), in
Abinger Harvest
(1936).

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Z

Abélard, Pierre,
1014

Acapulco, Mexico,
962
,
970
,
998

Adams, Charles Francis,
689

Adams, Henry,
689

African Americans,
722
,
726
,
736–37
,
750
,
756
,
781

African slaves,
963

Aguilar, Cándido,
899

Albany, N.Y.,
524–26

Aldama, Juan,
947

Aldington, Richard,
576

Alembert, Jean d’,
945

Alexandria, Va.,
781

Allende, Ignacio,
947

American Women’s Club, Paris,
685n

Americans,
554–55
,
557
,
562
,
565
,
573
,
580
,
687–91
,
702–3
,
706–8
,
789
,
870

AMTORG trading corporation,
841

Anarchism,
832–33
,
864–65

Anderson, Sherwood,
550
,
689

Ángel, Abraham,
990

Arber, Edward,
1014

Argentina,
708

Arizona,
548

Arnold, Benedict,
783

Astor, John Jacob,
524

Atl, Dr. (Gerardo Murillo),
990

Atlantic Monthly
,
571
,
585

Atomic bomb,
824
,
828–29

Audubon, John James,
743
,
756
,
758–59
,
764

Augustine, Saint,
647
,
813
,
818–19
;
Confessions
,
811
,
1014

Auld, Jessica Cather,
541–42

Austen, Jane,
611–12
,
709
;
Mansfield Park
,
1014

Austin, Texas,
1015

Authors Today and Yesterday
,
1007

Aztecs,
614
,
875
,
884–85
,
887
,
889
,
909
,
924
,
988

Baja California,
905

Baltimore, Md.,
565
,
674

Balzac, Honoré de,
549

Barcelona, Spain,
965

Baron, Rosa,
831
,
838–39
,
850
,
856
,
863

Bartók, Béla,
544

Barzun, Jacques,
624

Basel, Switzerland,
721
,
725
,
995
,
1008
,
1012

Bass, Sam,
738
,
742

Baton Rouge, La.,
757

Beach, Sylvia,
672–78

Beals, Carleton:
The Stones Awake
,
1000–1

Bean, Roy,
740

Beatty, Bessie,
837

Beethoven, Ludwig van,
549

Belgium,
721
,
776

Benda, Julien,
608

Benedict XIV,
959

Béranger, Pierre-Jean de,
779

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp,
542

Beristain, José Mariano,
956
,
966

Berlin, Germany,
835n
,
1008
,
1012

Bermuda,
721
,
781
,
1008

Bernhardt, Sarah,
1016

Best-Maugard, Adolfo,
909
,
990

Biala, Janice,
1011

Bible,
541
,
549
,
959

Bilignin, France,
572

Blanchard, Abbé,
955

Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente:
Mexico in Revolution
,
974–77

Blood, Benjamin Paul,
539

Blum, Léon,
569

Boehme, Jacob,
555

Bolshevism,
894

Bonaparte, Josephine,
779

Books Abroad
,
707

Boone, Daniel,
1009

Boston, Mass.,
524–26
,
620
,
831
,
835–36
,
840–63

Boswell, James,
576
;
The Life of Samuel Johnson
,
1014

Boulder, Col.,
809

Boxer Rebellion,
836

Boyle, Kay,
997

Brady, Mathew,
529–30

Braque, Georges,
569

Breit, Harvey,
623–24

Brenner, Anita:
Idols behind Altars,
987–92
;
The Wind that Swept Mexico,
1002–4

Breton, André,
569

Brinnin, John Malcolm:
Dylan Thomas in America
,
651–53

Britain,
526
, 528–
29
,
590
,
597
,
601
,
607
,
642
,
708
,
757
,
771–72
,
893
,
904
,
981–82
,
1002
,
1011

Brontë, Emily,
611
,
709
;
Wuthering Heights
,
1014

Brown, E. K.:
Willa Cather
,
551

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,
797–98

Browning, Robert,
797–98

Bruegel, Pieter: “The Fall of Icarus,”
691–92

Bryher (Annie Winnifred Ellerman),
675

Budapest, Hungary,
709

Bullfighting,
811
,
813–19

Bullitt, William,
838

Bustamante, Carlos María,
951–52

Butler, E. M.:
Rainer Maria Rilke
,
666

Byron, George Gordon,
590

Caldwell, Erskine:
Tobacco Road
,
785

California,
624

Calleja, Félix María,
952–53
,
957

Calles, Plutarco,
895
,
903

Campeche,
893

Canada,
820

Cantú, Esteban,
905

Capmany, Rafael Zubarán,
903

Capone, Al,
830

Cárdenas, Lázaro,
995

Carranza, Venustiano,
872–73
,
898–901
,
903–4
,
906
,
936
,
974–76
,
981
,
983
,
990

Carillo, Felipe,
864
,
873
,
906–7
,
1003

Carlyle, Jane,
576

Carlyle, Thomas,
523

Cather, Willa,
540–52
;
Alexander’s Bridge
,
547–48
;
Death Comes for the Archbishop
,
543
,
549
; “A Death in the Desert,”
551
; “The Diamond Mine,”
547
;
A Lost Lady
,
547
;
My Ántonia,
543
;
O Pioneers
!
543
,
548
;
Obscure Destinies
,
543
; “Paul’s Case,”
547
,
551
;
The Song of the Lark
,
543
;
The Troll Garden
,
547
,
551–52
;
Youth and the Bright Medusa
,
543