Mestizo Modernism Race, Nation, and Identity in Latin American Culture, 1900-1940 |
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| Author:
| Hedrick, Tace |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-3217-2 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2003 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $37.95USD $44.95 |
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Mestizo Modernism Tace Hedrick focuses on four key artists who represent Latin American modernism--Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo, Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, and Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Hedrick interrogates what being "modern" and "American" meant for them and illuminates the cultural contexts within which they worked, as well as the formal methods they shared, including the connection they drew between ancient cultures and...
More Description In Mestizo Modernism Tace Hedrick focuses on four key artists who represent Latin American modernism--Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo, Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, and Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Hedrick interrogates what being "modern" and "American" meant for them and illuminates the cultural contexts within which they worked, as well as the formal methods they shared, including the connection they drew between ancient cultures and modern technologies. In so doing, she defines "modernism" more as a time frame at the turn of the twentieth century, marked broadly across the arts and national boundaries, than as a strict aesthetic or formal category. In fact, this look at Latin American artists will force the reconceptualization of what modernism has meant in academic study and what it might mean for future research.