Background
Antonio Castro Leal was born on March 2, 1896 in San Luis Potosí.
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book
Las Cien Mejores Poesias Mexicanas Modernas
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006WFAX2M/?tag=2022091-20
Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art (Hardback) - Common
(Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art)
Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FKYVZB4/?tag=2022091-20
- Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art = Veinte Siglos de Arte Mexicano (Musuem of Modern Art, 1940, 1st edition, Very good., Plum...)
Antonio Leal
Edit ProfileDiplomat politician university professor
Education
He received his licenciate and doctor of law degrees from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and his Doctor of Philosophy from Georgetown University in Washington, District of Columbia
Career
Castro Leal was rector of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1929 during the student strikes that ultimately lead to the university becoming autonomous, after which he resigned his post. In 1934 as Director of the Department of Fine Arts he inaugurated the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. He lived in Paris from 1949 to 1954 as Mexico"s ambassador and executive board member for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, after which he moved to Coyoacán, in Mexico City, where he lived for the rest of his life.
He died on January 7, 1981.
( Rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) - 1928-1929 Director of the Department of Fine Arts - 1934 Mexican ambassador to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - 1949-1952 Member of Congress - 1958-1961.
Works
book
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Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art = Veinte Siglos de Arte Mexicano
(Musuem of Modern Art, 1940, 1st edition, Very good., Plum...)
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Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art (Hardback) - Common
(Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art)
- Las Cien Mejores Poesias Mexicanas Modernas
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Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art = Veinte Siglos de Arte Mexicano
Membership
Colegio Nacional; Academia Mexicana de la Lengua]
Member of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization"s executive board - 1950-1954.
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January 7, 1981 (aged 84) -
Nationality
Mexico -
Political Party
Institutional Revolutionary Party