The decade of the 1990s was one of the most turbulent periods in recent Mexican history marked by political assassinations, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, the signing of NAFTA, a catastrophic economic crisis, and the defeat of the PRI after seventy years of one-party rule. How did art respond to these events? To answer this question, Gallo examines some of the most radical artistic experiments produced in this period, from Daniela Rossell’s photographs of Mexican millionaires to Teresa Margolles’s manipulations of human remains, from Santiago Sierra’s controversial work with human subjects to Vicente Razo’s creation of a Salinas museum.
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"'New Tendencies in Mexican Art: The l990s' is an immensely engaging book that combines innovative art criticism with the recent social and cultural history of Mexico. Avoiding conventional categories of art criticism, Gallo examines a dazzling array of art works through the prisms of 'orientalism,' 'voyeurism,' 'radiophonism,' 'urbanism,' and 'institutionalism.' Written in an entertaining style, 'New Tendencies' is not only informative but path-breaking." --Jean Franco, Emeritus, Columbia University
"A subtle, lively and generous account of Mexico seen through the eyes of its artistic vanguard. The ode to radio, radio-listeners and Mexico City traffic alone would be worth the price of admission."--Alma Guillermoprieto
"For Ruben Gallo, a brilliant Mexican intellectual, the most natural (and necessary) approach is to incorporate into his essays equal doses of cultural criticism, media studies, literary analysis, and the certitude that one must constantly transform the canon. This book is a
demonstration of his reading methods."--Carlos Monsiváis, cultural critic and author of Mexican Postcards
"A subtle, lively and generous account of Mexico seen through the eyes of its artistic vanguard. The ode to radio, radio-listeners and Mexico City traffic alone would be worth the price of admission."--Alma Guillermoprieto
"For Ruben Gallo, a brilliant Mexican intellectual, the most natural (and necessary) approach is to incorporate into his essays equal doses of cultural criticism, media studies, literary analysis, and the certitude that one must constantly transform the canon. This book is a
demonstration of his reading methods."--Carlos Monsiváis, cultural critic and author of Mexican Postcards
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Ruben Gallo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University, where he teaches courses on media, modernity, and the avant-garde in Mexico.
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Rubén Gallo is an award-winning writer and scholar. He is the author of Freud's Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis (2010), an essay about Freud's fantasies about Mexico. He has also published Mexican Modernity: the Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution (2005), an essay about the Mexican avant-garde's fascination with machines, and two books about Mexico City's visual culture: New Tendencies in Mexican Art (2004) and The Mexico City Reader (2004). He is currently at work on a new book on Marcel Proust's Latin Americans. He is a member of the board of the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, and in 2009 he was the Freud-Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Psychoanalysis in Austria. He teaches at Princeton University and lives in New York City.
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This review is from: New Tendencies in Mexican Art: The 1990s (New Directions in Latino American Cultures) (Paperback)
Ruben Gallo is a genius. Never before has art been better used to explicate the weird, wooly, cilantro-ey world of Mexican culture. This is the rare thing -- an art-culture page turner. This book is the perfect dinner guest -- smart, witty, and with perfect phrasing. I endorse it!
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There are much better books on this subject,
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This review is from: New Tendencies in Mexican Art: The 1990s (New Directions in Latino American Cultures) (Paperback)
I can't think of too many things less dynamic than a paperback with b&w photos of art ... a b&w rainbow perhaps? If budget was the primary consideration, it probably would have been been better to publish on Kindle or some type of electronic version instead of printing on cheap pulp. If you can't do it right, don't do it at all.
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One of the most salient characteristics of Mexican art in the early 1990s-including most of the works produced by the Temistocles artists-was the fact that it made almost no references to the national culture in which it was produced. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
china poblana, generic city, personal communication with author, student massacre, chinas poblanas, installation view, body without organs, poorer residents Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mexico City, New York, Daniela Rossell, Mejor Vida, Museo del Prado, Museum of Anthropology, Minerva Cuevas, Octavio Paz, Taniel Morales, Santiago Sierra, Eduardo Abaroa, Francis Alys, Greene Naftali Gallery, Gustavo Prado, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Teresa Margolles, Vicente Razo, Lombardo Toledano, Mexican Revolution, Museo Salinas, San Felipe, Yishai Jusidman, Kyn Taniya, Lisson Gallery, Aurora Boreal New!
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One of the most salient characteristics of Mexican art in the early 1990s-including most of the works produced by the Temistocles artists-was the fact that it made almost no references to the national culture in which it was produced. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
china poblana, generic city, personal communication with author, student massacre, chinas poblanas, installation view, body without organs, poorer residents Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mexico City, New York, Daniela Rossell, Mejor Vida, Museo del Prado, Museum of Anthropology, Minerva Cuevas, Octavio Paz, Taniel Morales, Santiago Sierra, Eduardo Abaroa, Francis Alys, Greene Naftali Gallery, Gustavo Prado, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Teresa Margolles, Vicente Razo, Lombardo Toledano, Mexican Revolution, Museo Salinas, San Felipe, Yishai Jusidman, Kyn Taniya, Lisson Gallery, Aurora Boreal New!
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- Empire of Signs by Roland Barthes on 5 pages
- Mexico City by Patricia Martin on 4 pages
- The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Ogre by Octavio Paz in Front Matter, page 126, and page 137
- The Bodies That Were Not Ours: And Other Writings by Coco Fusco in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Massacre in Mexico by Elena Poniatowska in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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