Raquel Tibol. Criticism and militancy

Abstract

The compilation prepared by Elvira Concheiro and Víctor Hugo Pacheco that recovers the writings of Raquel Tibol - art critic and militant in Mexico - is relevant because it is a unique and carefully selected work that unifies and discusses her career over more than sixty years-period from 1965 to 1999-. The central idea of ??the book proposes to recover the work of Tibol for the value of its contribution to the investigation and diffusion of Mexican culture and art, as well as for its elaborations that expressed the constancy of its political position from the Marxist critique and its militancy supporting the cultural area of ??the Mexican Communist Party (PCM). It is indicated that "the interaction between political space and cultural or artistic space was for her a permanent dance of a complementary duel;" (Concheiro and Pacheco, 2016: 12) within which, the integrity of artistic criticism prevailed at all times . It was this attitude that earned him the respect of the community of artists in Mexico at the time of wrapping it in a constant controversy