Architecture as Revolution
Architecture as Revolution

Author: Luis E. Carranza

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0292721951

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The period following the Mexican Revolution was characterized by unprecedented artistic experimentation. Seeking to express the revolution's heterogeneous social and political aims, which were in a continuous state of redefinition, architects, artists, writers, and intellectuals created distinctive, sometimes idiosyncratic theories and works. Luis E. Carranza examines the interdependence of modern architecture in Mexico and the pressing sociopolitical and ideological issues of this period, as well as the interchanges between post-revolutionary architects and the literary, philosophical, and artistic avant-gardes. Organizing his book around chronological case studies that show how architectural theory and production reflected various understandings of the revolution's significance, Carranza focuses on architecture and its relationship to the philosophical and pedagogic requirements of the muralist movement, the development of the avant-garde in Mexico and its notions of the Mexican city, the use of pre-Hispanic architectural forms to address indigenous peoples, the development of a socially oriented architectural functionalism, and the monumentalization of the revolution itself. In addition, the book also covers important architects and artists who have been marginally discussed within architectural and art historiography. Richly illustrated, Architecture as Revolution is one of the first books in English to present a social and cultural history of early twentieth-century Mexican architecture.

"The Spanish Element in Our Nationality"

Author: Mary Elizabeth Boone

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780271083315

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Uses Spanish participation at a series of international exhibitions to explore the transnational histories of Spain, the United States, Europe, and America in order to understand how and why the Spanishness of U.S. national identity has been subverted, marginalized, and largely forgotten.

California's Magazine
California's Magazine

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13:

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Collection of short essays on California life, natural resources, education, transportation, agriculture, women's issues, and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Mexico at the World's Fairs
Mexico at the World's Fairs

Author: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024-06-12

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0520378091

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This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair—where its display was the largest and most expensive Mexico has ever mounted—with Mexico's presence after the 1910 Mexican Revolution at fairs in Rio de Janeiro in 1922 and Seville in 1929. Rather than seeing the revolution as a sharp break, Tenorio-Trillo points to important continuities between the pre- and post-revolution periods. He also discusses how, internationally, the character of world's fairs was radically transformed during this time, from the Eiffel Tower prototype, encapsulating a wondrous symbolic universe, to the Disneyland model of commodified entertainment. Drawing on cultural, intellectual, urban, literary, social, and art histories, Tenorio-Trillo's thorough and imaginative study presents a broad cultural history of Mexico from 1880 to 1930, set within the context of the origins of Western nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and modernism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.