{"product_id":"2940013237414","title":"Mexico A Study Of Two Americas","description":"WE went to Mexico on the advice of our friend George Biddle, the artist. He said that Indians had no time sense and that we ought to see the murals of Diego Rivera* Having just completed two moderately exhausting if not exhaustive studies of life in the machine age, I was impressed by both observations. I wanted a rest and I wanted to see paintings to which no process of reproduction in black and white can do justice. I went, then, for relaxation, but it is difficult to relax at seven thousand feet above the sea, the traveler's mean altitude. I stayed—and a few months later went again—because so many things excited me—volcanoes, the raw violence of the scenery, pyramids with plumed serpents marching across their bases, great crumbling cathedrals, native handicrafts, the frescoes of Rivera and Orozco, gold mines at the end of burro trails; and above all the way of life in the free villages, where I saw a handicraft economy functioning much as it did in the middle ages, and so a bench mark with which to compare my machines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe remained altogether about five months. One of us learned to talk some Spanish and the other to understand it, after his fashion. We went wherever we chose in perfect safety—our only fear the wildness of mestizo drivers on certain motor roads. Bandits were reported from time to time, but, somewhat to our disappointment, never bothered us. Once we drove to Puebla with some friends, and that night on the way back alone they clipped their\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuburn clean through a wire cable strung from tree to tree. There may have been highwaymen behind the trees; that was our nearest contact with bandidos. We liked the food and drink; we lived hard but well, our greatest discomfort the bitter cold of the nights on the high plateaus after the blazing days.","brand":"VARIETY BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069896638704,"sku":"2940013237414","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013237414_p0.jpg?v=1763578370","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013237414","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}