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Architecture as revolution : episodes in the history of modern Mexico / by Luis E. Carranza ; foreword by Jorge Francisco Liernur

By:

Carranza, Luis E, , 1968-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Publication details: Austin : University of Texas Press , 2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 241 p. : ill. ; 29 cmISBN:

9780292721951

Other title:

Episodes in the history of modern Mexico

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS REF 720 CAR

LOC classification:

NA2543.S6 C35 2010

Contents:

Introduction. Mexico, modernity, and architecture after the revolution -- If walls could talk : José Vasconcelos' Raza cósmica and the building for the Secretaría de Educación Pública -- La Ciudad falsificada : the avant-garde and the literary city -- Colonizing the colonizer : the Mexican Pavilion at the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition -- Against a new architecture : Juan O'Gorman and the disillusionment of modernism -- Monumentalizing the revolution.

Summary: The period following the Mexican Revolution was characterized by unprecedented artistic experimentation. This book examines the interdependence of modern architecture in Mexico and the socio-political and ideological issues of this period, as well as the interchanges between post-revolutionary architects and the artistic avant-gardes.

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Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	Consulta / Referencia	LAS REF 720 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		028806

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The period following the Mexican Revolution was characterized by unprecedented artistic experimentation. This book examines the interdependence of modern architecture in Mexico and the socio-political and ideological issues of this period, as well as the interchanges between post-revolutionary architects and the artistic avant-gardes.

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