Jean Charlot’s Corrigenda to his “José-Clemente Orozco”

1^rst version

To be revised.

1^rst published Forma N^o 6.

Page 25, right column:

line 19: replace “aesthetic” with “ascetic”

line 42: after “intelligencia” add “priests of pure plastic”

“primarys” instead of “uninitiated”[1]

line 46: replace “can” with “escape to”[2]

lines 46–47: Replace “In these experiments…failure” with “This could not be done.”

line 52: replace “me” with “of himself”

line 56: after “complexities” add “untamed by the eater”

lines 56–57: replace “the process of this painter’s work” with “his process of work”

Page 26, left column:

line 14: replace “traces” with “segments.”

line 16: after “qualities” add “different from the components.”

line 37: replace “a curious” with “an”

Page 26, right column:

line 8: replace “diagonals” with “a diagonal”

line 10: replace “sustain” with “buttress”

line 14: at “arch” Charlot notes “part missing”

lines 22–24: “part missing”[3]

line 31: after “with” Charlot notes “part missing”

line 35: after “frescos” Charlot notes “part missing”

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[1] Jean Charlot described this later as a Gallicism (“primaires) for “primitives.”

[2] Charlot identified this as a Gallicism for “escape being.”

[3] Charlot later conjectured that the missing section was in line 23 after “architecture.”