episodes in the history of modern Mexico Carranza, Luis E. 1968- creator text bibliography txu 2010 1st ed. monographic eng

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xiv, 241 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Seeking to express the heterogeneous social & political aims of the Mexican Revolution, which were in a state of continuous redefinition, architects, artists, writers & intellectuals created distinctive, sometimes idiosyncratic theories & works. Introduction. Mexico, modernity, and architecture after the revolution -- If walls could talk : José Vasconcelos' Raza cósmica and the building for the Secretaría de Educación Pública -- La Ciudad falsificada : the avant-garde and the literary city -- Colonizing the colonizer : the Mexican Pavilion at the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition -- Against a new architecture : Juan O'Gorman and the disillusionment of modernism -- Monumentalizing the revolution -- by Luis E. Carranza ; foreword by Jorge Francisco Liernur. Includes bibliographical references and index. Architecture and society Mexico History 20th century Modernism (Aesthetics) Mexico History 20th century Architecture Mexico History 20th century Mexico History Revolution, 1910-1920 Monuments NA2543.S6 C35 2010 720.1/0309720904 9780292721951 0292721951 pucpr 091222 20220314133207.0 eng