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Author(s) -
Sam Willner
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02671377
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , library science , world wide web , information retrieval
In 1932 the Mexican artist Diego Rivera was invited to paint a mural for the Rockefeller Center in New York. The revolutionary artist created a work full of anti-capitalistic symbols and visions of a socialist society. The Rockefellers sought in vain to make Rivera to modify the motive. The painter was eventually dismissed and the mural was demolished. This episode could illustrate the unlikely and sometimes stormy relationship between revolutionary Mexico and the Rockefeller Foundation, mainly in the field of public health projects. A relation that came to last for several years, dealing with public health campaigns against yellow fever and hookworm disease, founding of cooperative health units, education of public health professionals etc. AnneEmanuelle Birn, associate professor at the University of Toronto, offers an interesting analysis of this interaction between the Rockefeller Foundation and Revolutionary Mexico from the 1920s to the mid-20th century in her book Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico.