Mexican Modernity: The Avant-garde And The Technological Revolution

By Rubén Gallo

Book Overview

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;

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262072645
• ISBN13: 9780262072649
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher