Portrait of a Young Painter

Mary Kay Vaughan is Professor of History Emerita at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Cultural Politics in Revolution: Teachers, Peasants, and Schools in Mexico, 1930–40, winner of both the Conference on Latin American History's Bolton Prize and the Latin American Studies Association's Bryce Wood Award, and a coeditor of Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico and The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940, both also published by Duke University Press.

"The last several years have revealed the start of a remarkable ferment among historians of postrevolutionary, and especially of post-1945, Mexico....Mary Kay Vaughan’s beautifully written, masterful new book, Portrait of a Young Painter, is situated precisely at the interstices of this historiographical revisionism." - Eric Zolov (Hispanic American Historical Review) "Mary Kay Vaughan’s Portrait of a Young Painter is an extraordinary contribution to the literature on the Latin American sixties.... It will be mandatory reading on the sixties, an era of transforming subjectivities worldwide." - Valeria Manzano (American Historical Review) "Scholars will gain much from reading this smartly written, imaginative study. Skillfully revealing the complex, multilayered worlds that ZÚÑiga inhabited, Vaughan opens the door to a greater understanding of Mexico's 1960s youth rebellion. This powerful analysis will contribute significantly to the field, but also should point to new ways of writing history." - Stephanie J. Smith (The Americas) "Vaughan’s book suggests that the roots of political resistance in Mexico can be profitably explored at the level of individual subjectivity, and her work should influence future scholarship by Mexicanists and historians of youth movements in Latin America and beyond." - Rachel Grace Newman (Journal of Latin American Studies) "Mary Kay Vaughan’s biography of Mexican painter Pepe ZÚÑiga is a labor of love and friendship." - Robert M. Buffington (EIAL) “Vaughan writes a lively, inspired, and extremely detailed cultural history of Mexico City’s urban culture between 1940 and 1970. . . . She writes with empathy, intelligence, and humor.” - Rubén Gallo (Latin American Research Review)

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Lupe's Voice 292. Enchanting City / Magical Radio 443. Pepe at School and with God, the Virgin, and the Saints 584. My Father, My Teacher 785. The ZÚÑiga Family as a Radionovela 986. "How Difficult Is Adolescence!" 1277. "Five Pesos, Two Pencils, and an Eraser!" 1458. Exuberant Interlude: Painting at the Museo de AntropologÍa 1739. Private Struggle / Public Protest: 1965–1972 18410. Subjectivity and the Public Sphere: The Mature Art of JosÉ (Pepe) ZÚÑiga 212Notes 241Bibliography 259Index 279