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100 1 $aGabara, Esther,$d1972-
245 10 $aErrant modernism :$bthe ethos of photography in Mexico and Brazil /$cEsther Gabara.
246 30 $aEthos of photography in Mexico and Brazil
260 $aDurham :$bDuke University Press,$c2008.
300 $axii, 357 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.) ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Prelim. p.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [319]-343) and index.
505 0 $aLandscape : 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.
520 $aMaking 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. Authors who are now canonical figures in the two countries' literary traditions looked at modern life through the camera in a variety of ways. Mario de Andrade, known as the 'pope' of Brazilian modernism, took and collected hundreds of photographs. Salvador Novo, a major Mexican writer, meditated on the medium's aesthetic potential as 'the prodigal daughter of the fine arts'. Intellectuals acted as tourists and ethnographers, and their images and texts circulated in popular mass media, sharing the page with photographs of the New Woman. In this richly illustrated study, Gabara introduces the concept of a modernist 'ethos' to illuminate the intertwining of aesthetic innovation and ethical concerns in the work of leading Brazilian and Mexican literary figures. These writers were also photographers, art critics, and contributors to illustrated magazines during the 1920s and 1930s.
650 0 $aPhotography$xSocial aspects$zMexico.
650 0 $aPhotography$xSocial aspects$zBrazil.
650 0 $aLiterature and photography$zMexico.
650 0 $aLiterature and photography$zBrazil.
650 0 $aModernism (Aesthetics)$zMexico.
650 0 $aModernism (Aesthetics)$zBrazil.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aGabara, Esther, 1972-$tErrant modernism.$dDurham : Duke University Press, ©2008$w(OCoLC)609217521
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