El estridentismo en la ciudad 1921-1929 : historia de una vanguardia urbana en Mexico / Joel F. Audefroy ; traducción : Rita Torres Pascacio.

Primera edición.

Ciudad de México : Ediciones Navarra, 2023.

437 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm

Limited edition of 500 copies.

The Estridentismo (1921-1929) was one of the first avant-garde artistic and literary movements after the Mexican Revolution. It established the movement that constructed an imaginary of the modern city through two cultural channels: literature and graphic art/painting. artistic-cultural movement's contributions. Its members (poets, painters and sculptors) took the best of the Revolution inertia to cause an esthetic renovation according to the political and social changes. There were neither architects nor town planners in the group. Nevertheless, the modern city was the estridentist poets and painters' main esthetic and productive obsession. By the way, they conceived the Estridentopolis utopia. They acted then as real modern city deities in Mexico. Little by little, new post-revolutionary values ​​came to light: education (Vasconcelos), technology and progress that could only be found in the city. Mexico was just emerging from the authoritarian obscurantism of Porfirio Díaz and modernist and romantic poetry. The Estridentist movement manifested itself in an essentially urban context, through manifestos (posters posted on walls), meetings in a café (El Café de Nadie), magazines (Ser, Irradiador and Horizonte) and book publications with the support of the governor of the State of Veracruz, Heriberto Jara in Xalapa. The contribution of Estridentism is fundamental to Mexican cultural life, through its art, poetry and literature and the graphic proposals of its artists. Includes individual chapters on: Leopoldo Méndez; Jean Charlot, Fermín Revueltas, Ramón Alva de Canal, Germán Cueto, Tin Modotti.

Spanish

October 21, 2024

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-437).