MEXICAN MODERNITY: AVANT-GARDE AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL Ruben Gallo Paperback Illus

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A secret history of Mexican modernity told through five artifactscameras, typewriters, radio, cement, stadiumsand the radical transformation of art and literature they brought about in the 1920s and 1930s.

In Mexican Modernity, Rubén 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 artifacts, 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 artifacts 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 mechanization of literary aesthetics; radio and...