Shop By

Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil

Esther Gabara

€ 34.99

€ 32.04

You save € 2.95!

FREE Delivery in Ireland

Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days

Description for Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 376 pages, 67 b&w photos, with 7 color plates. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLSB; 3JJG; ACXD; AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 240 x 29. Weight in Grams: 682.
Making 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. Mário 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher

Duke University Press United States

Number of pages

376

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2008

Series

A John Hope Franklin Center Book

Condition

New

Weight

680g

Number of Pages

376

Place of Publication

North Carolina, United States

ISBN

9780822343233

SKU

V9780822343233

Shipping Time

Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days

Ref

99-1

About Esther Gabara

Esther Gabara is Assistant Professor of Romance Studies, and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.

Reviews for Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil

“Errant Modernism is outstanding. Esther Gabara effortlessly navigates between avant-garde literary texts and modern print culture to reveal an ethic of ‘that which errs.’ In the process, photography becomes both the fact and metaphor enabling her theory of Latin American modernist cultural production.”—Roberto Tejada, author of National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment “With subtlety and rigor, Esther Gabara deftly ... Read moreexpands the horizon of photographic history and redefines the contours of twentieth-century modernism in the Americas. Focusing on the social and cultural ‘ethos’ of aesthetic practice in both Mexico and Brazil, she provides a provocative corrective to formalist definitions that dominate the field and demonstrates that the full story of photographic modernism has yet to be told.”—Jennifer A. González, author of Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art “Errant Modernism attends to a broad set of enthusiasms with a sustained attention that is both rigorous and creative. It is an interdisciplinary monograph that will indelibly mark the field of visual culture studies while proving equally useful to art historians; it speaks to communications studies as much as to comparative literary histories. Gabara’s work has significance that reaches beyond the Latin American context to arrive in conversation with the growing body of international scholarship addressing transnational and ‘peripheral’ modernities the world over. Finally, Gabara’s is not a nostalgic memorial to modernism but a cross-temporal examination that will continue to inform visual discourses of our own times.”
Kristy A. Rawson
Aztlán
“Errant Modernism is an impressive feat of archival research, and it brings to light much photographic material that will alter our vision of twentieth-century Mexican cultural history. . . . This is an exciting new contribution to the field of Mexican photography. Gabara strikes the perfect balance between theoretical sophistication and a keen sensibility for the material at hand.”
Rubén Gallo
Modernism/Modernity
“Errant Modernism’s strength is its comparative frame. . . . [Gabara’s] introduction does a nice job of outlining key figures and critical issues germane to the study of modernist photography across Latin America, while the epilogue considers some of her arguments in relation to contemporary art photography. Trained in comparative literature, Gabara fluently places literary and visual representation in dialogue, appreciating that most vanguardists did not work within a single media, toting journals along with cameras on their travels.”
George Flaherty
CAA Reviews
“[Errant Modernism] offers a rich, highly nuanced and stimulating rereading of modernism and Latin America. . . . Overall this is a fascinating and deeply satisfying excavation which will do much to enhance our understanding of the dynamics and discourses of specific modernisms and of the fluid ways in which photography was simultaneously a cipher, metaphor and realization of those ideas. But above all Gabara gives us a strong sense of the possibility of another, differently nuanced account of photography . . . and one whose trajectory had profound and intellectual and aesthetic legacies.”
Elizabeth Edwards
Art History
“In this work, Esther Gabara provides an innovative interpretation of modernist literary and artistic movements of the 1920s and 1930s in Brazil and Mexico, successfully arguing that their radical aesthetic experimentation and ethical commitment retain their relevance in the vastly changed circumstances of today. The work establishes an elaborate interdisciplinary dialogue between word, image, and context that will be of interest to those working in literary studies, art history, and visual culture for many years to come.”
James Krippner
The Americas
“Through more than 70 plates and figures, Errant Modernism offers rich insights into the modernist ethos by which aesthetic innovation and ethical concerns intertwined that emerged from the overlap of literary texts and modern print culture.”
Gavin O’Toole
Latin American Review of Books
Show Less

Shop By

Categories

Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil

Esther Gabara

Product Details

Goodreads reviews for Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil

Subscribe to our newsletter