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1 online resource |
| Series |
Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas series
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Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Utopian City -- Chapter 2: Atopian City -- Chapter 3: Melotopian City -- Chapter 4: Dystopian City -- Chapter 5: Eutopian City -- Chapter 6: Objective City -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"Kefala looks at the interaction between modernity and modernism in literature, photography, film, and painting during the interwar period. She analyzes works by Jorge Luis Borges, Oliverio Girondo, Jose Ferreyra, Xul Solar, Roberto Arlt, and Horacio Coppola, with a focus on the city of Buenos Aires as a playground of modernity. This was a period of profound change and heightened cultural activity in Argentina. By 1920, Buenos Aires was Latin America's largest and most cosmopolitan center due to massive immigration from Europe. This had drastic effects on the city's socioeconomic and cultural topography and raised political, ideological, and aesthetic issues that shaped the modernist landscape. Artists responded to these changes with conflicting depictions of urban space. Kefala understands these conflicts themselves as a cognitive map of modernity's new realities in the city and in understandings of the city"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arts, Argentine -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 20th century.
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Modernism (Art) -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires.
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Arts and society -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 20th century.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
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Arts and society |
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Arts, Argentine |
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Modernism (Art) |
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Argentina -- Buenos Aires |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kefala, Eleni. Buenos Aires Across the Arts. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2022 9780822946922 |
| ISBN |
9780822988519 (electronic book) |
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0822988518 (electronic book) |
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