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Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution

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A secret history of Mexican modernity told through five artefacts - cameras, typewriters, radio, cement, stadiums - and the radical transformation of art and literature they brought about in the 1920s and 1930s. In Mexican Modernity, Ruben Gallo tells the story of a second Mexican Revolution, a battle fought on the front of cultural representation. The new revolutionaries were not rebels or outlaws but artists and writers; their weapons were cameras, typewriters, radios, and other technological artefacts, and their goal was not to topple a dictator but to dethrone nineteenth-century aesthetics. Gallo tells the story of this other revolution by focusing on five artefacts that left a deep mark on the literature and the arts of the 1920s and 1930s: the camera and its novel techniques for seeing the modern world; the typewriter and its mechanisation of literary aesthetics; radio and poetic experiments with wireless communication;

Language: English

Pages: 268

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Release: December 19, 2005

ISBN: 0262072645

ISBN 13: 9780262072649

Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution

4/5 ( ratings)

A secret history of Mexican modernity told through five artefacts - cameras, typewriters, radio, cement, stadiums - and the radical transformation of art and literature they brought about in the 1920s and 1930s. In Mexican Modernity, Ruben Gallo tells the story of a second Mexican Revolution, a battle fought on the front of cultural representation. The new revolutionaries were not rebels or outlaws but artists and writers; their weapons were cameras, typewriters, radios, and other technological artefacts, and their goal was not to topple a dictator but to dethrone nineteenth-century aesthetics. Gallo tells the story of this other revolution by focusing on five artefacts that left a deep mark on the literature and the arts of the 1920s and 1930s: the camera and its novel techniques for seeing the modern world; the typewriter and its mechanisation of literary aesthetics; radio and poetic experiments with wireless communication;

Language: English

Pages: 268

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Release: December 19, 2005

ISBN: 0262072645

ISBN 13: 9780262072649

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