Mestizo modernity : race, technology, and the body in postrevolutionary Mexico /

This book discusses the work of José Vasconcelos, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Emilio "El Indio" Fernández, El Santo, and Carlos Olvera. These artists--and many others--held diametrically opposed worldviews and used very different media while producing works during different decades. Neverthe...

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Main Author:	Dalton, David S. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018]
Series:	Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America.
Subjects:	Mestizaje > Mexico. Race awareness > Mexico > History. Indians of Mexico > Mixed descent. Indigenous peoples > Mixed descent > Mexico. Mestizaje. Race awareness. Indians of Mexico. Mexico. Latin America. History.
Summary:	This book discusses the work of José Vasconcelos, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Emilio "El Indio" Fernández, El Santo, and Carlos Olvera. These artists--and many others--held diametrically opposed worldviews and used very different media while producing works during different decades. Nevertheless, each of these artists posited the fusion of the body with technology as key to forming an "authentic," Mexican identity.