Buenos Aires Across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939
By 1920 Buenos Aires was the largest and most cosmopolitan city of Latin America due to mass immigration from Europe in the previous decades. Unbridled urban expansion had drastic effects on the social and cultural topography of the Argentine capital, raising ideological and aesthetic issues that shaped the modernist landscape of the country. Artists across disciplines responded to these changes with conflicting depictions of urban space. Centering these conflicts as a cognitive map of modernity’s new realities in the city, Buenos Aires across the Arts looks at the interaction between modernity and modernism in literature, photography, film, and painting during the interwar period. This was a time of profound change and heightened cultural activity in Argentina. Eleni Kefala analyzes works by Jorge Luis Borges, Oliverio Girondo, José Ferreyra, Xul Solar, Roberto Arlt, and Horacio Coppola, with a focus on the city of Buenos Aires as a playground of modernity.
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Buenos Aires Across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939
By 1920 Buenos Aires was the largest and most cosmopolitan city of Latin America due to mass immigration from Europe in the previous decades. Unbridled urban expansion had drastic effects on the social and cultural topography of the Argentine capital, raising ideological and aesthetic issues that shaped the modernist landscape of the country. Artists across disciplines responded to these changes with conflicting depictions of urban space. Centering these conflicts as a cognitive map of modernity’s new realities in the city, Buenos Aires across the Arts looks at the interaction between modernity and modernism in literature, photography, film, and painting during the interwar period. This was a time of profound change and heightened cultural activity in Argentina. Eleni Kefala analyzes works by Jorge Luis Borges, Oliverio Girondo, José Ferreyra, Xul Solar, Roberto Arlt, and Horacio Coppola, with a focus on the city of Buenos Aires as a playground of modernity.
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Buenos Aires Across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939

Buenos Aires Across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939

by Eleni Kefala
Buenos Aires Across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939
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Buenos Aires Across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939

Buenos Aires Across the Arts: Five and One Theses on Modernity, 1921-1939

by Eleni Kefala

Overview

By 1920 Buenos Aires was the largest and most cosmopolitan city of Latin America due to mass immigration from Europe in the previous decades. Unbridled urban expansion had drastic effects on the social and cultural topography of the Argentine capital, raising ideological and aesthetic issues that shaped the modernist landscape of the country. Artists across disciplines responded to these changes with conflicting depictions of urban space. Centering these conflicts as a cognitive map of modernity’s new realities in the city, Buenos Aires across the Arts looks at the interaction between modernity and modernism in literature, photography, film, and painting during the interwar period. This was a time of profound change and heightened cultural activity in Argentina. Eleni Kefala analyzes works by Jorge Luis Borges, Oliverio Girondo, José Ferreyra, Xul Solar, Roberto Arlt, and Horacio Coppola, with a focus on the city of Buenos Aires as a playground of modernity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822988519
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 03/29/2022
Series: Pitt Illuminations
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 264
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Eleni Kefala is senior lecturer at the University of St Andrews. Her work explores modernity across different periods and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. She is the author of The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity and Peripheral (Post) Modernity: The Syncretist Aesthetics of Borges, Piglia, Kalokyris, and Kyriakidis, and editor of Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World: From Conquest to Globalisation.

Table of Contents

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
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