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Constructing Identity in Contemporary Architecture
The global spread of uniform modes of production and cultural values has been accompanied by a dissemination of stereotypes of "modern" architecture styles almost everywhere around the globe. Paradoxically, the reverse process has also emerged: In some countries, the elites feel the necessity to counterbalance the "loss of identity" and defend their own cultures against the "intruding" forces of globalization. What started as a defensive notion has developed into a more progressive attempt to re-create what has allegedly been lost. This trend is being strongly expressed in discourses about architecture in countries of the South. Who are the actors feeling compelled to "construct" new identities? How are these new identities in architecture created in various parts of the world? And, which are the ingredients borrowed from various historical and ethnic traditions and other sources? These and other questions are discussed in five case studies from different parts of the world, written by renowned scholars from Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, India and Singapore.
Building the New World
Brasilia, Caracas, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro ... cities synonymous with some of the most innovative and progressive architecture of the past century.
Dude Lit
How did men become the stars of the Mexican intellectual scene? Dude Lit examines the tricks of the trade and reveals that sometimes literary genius rests on privileges that men extend one another and that women permit. The makings of the “best” writers have to do with superficial aspects, like conformist wardrobes and unsmiling expressions, and more complex techniques, such as friendship networks, prizewinners who become judges, dropouts who become teachers, and the key tactic of being allowed to shift roles from rule maker (the civilizado) to rule breaker (the bárbaro). Certain writing habits also predict success, with the “high and hard” category reserved for men’s writing and ...
Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico
In the 1930s, the artistic and cultural patronage of celebrated Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas transformed a small Michoacán city, Pátzcuaro, into a popular center for national tourism. Cárdenas commissioned public monuments and archeological excavations; supported new schools, libraries, and a public theater; developed tourism sites and infrastructure, including the Museo de Artes e Industrias Populares; and hired artists to paint murals celebrating regional history, traditions, and culture. The creation of Pátzcuaro was formative for Mexico; not only did it provide an early model for regional economic and cultural development, but it also helped establish some of Mexico's most end...
Hemispheric Integration
Exploring art made in Latin America during the 1930s and 1940s, Hemispheric Integration argues that Latin America’s position within a global economic order was crucial to how art from that region was produced, collected, and understood. Niko Vicario analyzes art’s relation to shifting trade patterns, geopolitical realignments, and industrialization to suggest that it was in this specific era that the category of Latin American art developed its current definition. Focusing on artworks by iconic Latin American modernists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Joaquín Torres-García, Cândido Portinari, and Mario Carreño, Vicario emphasizes the materiality and mobility of art and their connection to commerce, namely the exchange of raw materials for manufactured goods from Europe and the United States. An exceptional examination of transnational culture, this book provides a new model for the study of Latin American art.
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A Concise History of Mexico
This updated edition offers an accessible and richly illustrated study of Mexico's political, social, economic and cultural history.
Juan O'Gorman
Reconocido como una de las grandes figuras de la arquitectura del siglo XX, Juan O'Gorman es, sin embargo, más popular por su trabajo pictórico. Casualmente en su obra más famosa, la Biblioteca Central de la Ciudad Universitaria, reunió las dos artes y gracias a ello hoy recibe un gran reconocimiento en el extranjero y entre los expertos. Sin embargo, poco se conoce de su aportación al estilo funcionalista con la construcción, entre 1929 y 1932, de la casa para su familia y las dos que hizo para Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, en San Ángel. Este libro sigue la ruta intelectual que llevó a O'Gorman a romper con la academia y sus fundamentos estéticos para proponer estos diseños radicalmente originales, y debe considerarse una medida de defensa de estas obras de relevancia excepcional, lo mismo por sus méritos arquitectónicos que por el valor histórico que les confiere el haber sido morada de dos artistas excepcionales y que hoy, después de haber sido restauradas por el INBA, forman parte del patrimonio artístico de México y cumplen funciones museográficas.
A Surreal Life
A series of essays examining the many facets of the man known for his patronage of surrealist art.
Trotsky
A biography of the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
