Errant Modernism The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil

Name: Errant Modernism The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil
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ISBN: 9780822343233

ISBN-10: 0822343231

ISBN-13: 9780822343233

Edition: 2008

Authors: Esther Gabara

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Making a vital contribution to the understanding of Latin American modernism, Esther Gabara rethinks the role of photography in the Brazilian and Mexican avant-garde movements of the 1920s and 1930s. During these decades, intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil were deeply engaged with photography. Authors who are now canonical figures in the two countries' literary traditions looked at modern life through the camera in a variety of ways. Mário de Andrade, known as the "pope" of Brazilian modernism, took and collected hundreds of photographs. Salvador Novo, a major Mexican writer, meditated on the medium's aesthetic potential as "the prodigal daughter of the fine arts." Intellectuals acted as…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.21" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Landscape: Errant Modernist Aesthetics in Brazil



Portraiture: Facing Brazilian Primitivism



Mediation: Mass Culture, Popular Culture, Modernism



Essay: Las Bellas Artes Publicas, Photography, and Gender in Mexico



Fiction: Photographic Fictions, Fictional Photographs


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index