Revista de Occidente magazine, founded and directed by José Ortega y Gasset, aimed to give an “essential overview of European and American life”. It wasn’t just a scientific learning publication, nor one in which to merely disseminate ideas, but something that showed the “new symptoms” of the “new time” in fields as diverse as philosophy, sociology, psychology, teaching, economics, literature, fine arts, music, architecture, physics, biology, mathematics, archaeology, anthropology, history and the new field of cinematography, whilst also providing current affairs content, such as news about the Russian Revolution. In 1924, the Editorial Revista de Occidente was born – directed by Manuel García Morente until 1934, and then by Fernando Vela until 1936 -, which published over 200 books from contemporary authors such as Simmel, Husserl, Jung, Bretano, Natorp, D’Ors, V. Ocampo, Schulten, Frobenius, Scheler, Salinas, García Lorca, Alberti, Russell and Huizinga.
Francisco Bores, Frimario, noviembre de 1925. Dibujo para portada de Revista de Occidente. Tinta china, acuarela y lápiz de color sobre papel. Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid.