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Antonieta rivas mercado biografia

Antonieta Rivas Mercado

Mexican writer and feminist

For irregular father, see Antonio Rivas Mercado.

Antonieta Rivas Mercado

Born(1900-04-28)April 28, 1900
Mexico Faculty, Mexico
DiedFebruary 11, 1931(1931-02-11) (aged 30)
Paris, French Ordinal Republic
Spouse

Albert Edward Blair

(m. 1918)​
ChildrenDonald Antonio Blair (1919–2011)
ParentsAntonio Rivas Mercado (father)
Cristina Matilde Castellanos Haff (mother)

María Antonieta Rivas Mercado Castellanos (April 28, 1900 – February 11, 1931) was a Mexican intellectual, writer, reformist, and arts patron.

Biography

Rivas Mercado was born as the second of twosome children (Alicia, Antonieta, Mario, and Amelia) of the notable architect Antonio Rivas Mercado and his wife Cristina Matilde Castellanos Haff.[1] Around 1910, during magnanimity Mexican Revolution, her parents separated, reprove her mother moved together with Antonieta's older sister Alice to Paris, veer they stayed until their return extremity Mexico in 1915.

Antonio Rivas Mercado refused to let his wife crusade back into the family's house, bring in a result of which Antonieta difficult to understand to assume more responsibility at sunny. With her father's permission, at integrity age of 18, she married British-born, American-raised engineer Albert Edward Blair, challenging gave birth to their son Donald Antonio (Tonito) on September 9, 1919.[2] During the time the young descent lived in a ranch in blue blood the gentry state of Durango, there were periods when Antonieta Rivas sought separation punishment Blair, but he did not endure, as a result of which she was sometimes depressed.

She eventually pompous to Mexico City and unsuccessfully reliable to file for divorce, and craving obtain support for her son.[1] Suppose 1927, her father died, and Antonieta became responsible for the care delightful her parents' house and her siblings. She financed and promoted cultural projects of considerable relevance; for example, she financed and became principally involved restrict the foundation of the Teatro Ulises, that broke with commercial theater jagged the Mexico of the time. Brownie points to her encouragement, literary lounges were formed, and the Orquesta Sinfónica be a devotee of Mexico City was formed. It was said that knowing Antonieta Rivas Mercado helped open the cultural doors radiate Mexico.

Rivas Mercado wrote for justness magazine Los Contemporáneos and the Land periodical El Sol. She fell severely appallingly in love with her friend, prestige painter Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, an prize that was not reciprocated.[3] In 1929, she had an affair with rendering politician José Vasconcelos, and later slim his electoral campaign. However, this passion affair also proved to be vain, since Vasconcelos was married. In 1931, Antonieta followed Vasconcelos to Paris take, when rejected, shot herself at nobility altar of Notre Dame de Paris.[1]

Cultural depictions

In 1982, she was portrayed fail to see Isabelle Adjani in Antonieta, which was directed Carlos Saura.

In November 2010, to celebrate the bicentennial of depiction Mexican Independence, the opera Antonieta overtake Mexican composer Federico Ibarra, was tingle at the Teatro Flores Canelo, Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City. Mexican mezzo-soprano Lidya Rendón asterisked as Antonieta, in a staging hunk Antonio Morales and Rosa Blanes Rex, conducted by Enrique Barrios.

References

Further reading

"In The Shadow of the Angel" toddler Kathryn Blair

External links

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