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The noisemakers : Estridentismo, vanguardism, and social action in postrevolutionary Mexico

Klich, Lynda, author

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\"The Noisemakers examines Estridentismo, one of Mexico's first modernist art and literary movements. Founded by poet Manuel Maples Arce, Estridentismo spurred dynamic collaborations and debates among artists, writers, and intellectuals during the decade after the Mexican Revolution. Lynda Klich explores the paradoxical aims of the movement's writers and artists who deployed manifestos, journals, and cubo-futurist forms to insert themselves into international vanguard networks as they simultaneously participated in nationalist reconstruction of the 1920s. In crafting a cosmopolitan Mexican identity, Estridentista artists both circulated images of modern technologies and urban life and visually updated traditional subjects such as masks and Mexican types. Klich reads the movement's radical cultural production as a call for active sociopolitical engagement and characterizes Estridentismo as an ambitious program for national cultural and social modernity in the early twentieth century. Exploring the tensions that emerged from these divergent cosmopolitan and local proposals, The Noisemakers inserts Mexico into the dialogue of global modernisms.\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Estridentismo (Art movement) / Estridentismo (Literary movement) / Art, Mexican 20th century. / Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Mexico History 20th century. / Art Political aspects Mexico History 20th century. / Art and society Mexico History 20th century. / ART General. / Avantgarde / Estridentismo / Gesellschaftskritik / Kunst / Literatur / Politische Kunst / Mexiko
• ISBN: 9780520296404, 0520296400

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N6555.5.E76 K59 2018	1	BOOK	ARTS