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Sin centenario ni bicentenario

Autor: Karen Cordero , Iván Acebo Choy

Número de Páginas: 180

In the framework of the Mexican Bicentennial/Centennial celebrations this art exhibition focuses on the gender perspective and on the personal implications of the words "revolution" and "independence", examined from the conception of the body in contemporary daily life. Both, the texts and curatorial proposal present narrative and alternate cultural and artistic representations that question and redefine the feminine concepts of revolution, liberty and independence. Published on the occasion of the homonymous virtual exhibition held at the Museo de Mujeres Artistas Mexicanas (Museum of Female Mexican Artists) and where women artists present their artistic perception of the body as "a place of construction of identities" expressed through different art techniques: painting, sculpture, photography, video art and installations.

Ghosts of the Revolution in Mexican Literature and Visual Culture

Autor: Erica Segre

Número de Páginas: 360

The official centenary commemorating the Mexican Revolution of 1910 provided scholars with an opportunity to consider memorialization and its legacies and 'afterimages' in the twentieth century through to the present time. This collection of new essays, commissioned from experts based in Mexico, Europe and the United States, plays on the interrelated notions of 'revisitation', haunting, residual traces and valediction to interrogate the Revolution's multiple appearances, reckonings and reconfigurations in art, photography, film, narrative fiction, periodicals, travel-testimonies and poetry, examining key constituencies of creative media in Mexico that have been involved in historicizing, contesting or evading the mixed legacies of the Revolution. The interplay of themes, practices and contexts across the chapters (ranging from the 1920s through to the present day) draws on interdisciplinary thinking as well as new findings, framing the volume's discourse with a deliberately multi-dimensional approach to an often homogenized topic. The contributors' scholarly referencing of artists, novelists, poets, photographers, foreign correspondents, critics, filmmakers and curators is...