Errant modernism : the ethos of photography in Mexico and Brazil

Errant modernism : the ethos of photography in Mexico and Brazil / Esther Gabara.

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. Autho...

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Main Author: Gabara, Esther, 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Photography > Social aspects > Mexico.
Photography > Social aspects > Brazil.
Literature and photography > Mexico.
Literature and photography > Brazil.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > Mexico.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > Brazil.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Landscape : errant modernist aesthetics in Brazil
  • Portraiture : facing Brazilian primitivism
  • Mediation : mass culture, popular culture, modernism
  • Essay : las bellas artes públicas, photography, and gender in Mexico
  • Fiction : photographic fictions, fictional photographs.

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