Jorge Enciso Alatorre: una vanguardia acotada

Abstract

In the 1920s many successful artists, who envisioned certain values to construct the idea of Mexican identity, were displaced by the wave of post-revolutionary muralists, who had different values for nation-building. This was the case of Jorge Enciso, a well-known modernist artist, who along with Julio Ruelas, Roberto Montenegro, and Salvador Murillo contributed in the avant-garde magazine Revista Moderna de Mexico. Today most of Enciso’s work is dispersed. Nevertheless, this article attempts to trace some of his work and to shed light on his life as a modernist artist in the first decades of the twentieth century.