Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

by EstherGabara (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2009

  $39.61

  Looks at the role of photography in the Brazilian and Mexican avant-garde movements of the 1920s and 1930s. This illustrated study 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.